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| Canmore ID |
39566 |
SCRAP ID |
506 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NR 82190 91540
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| ROCK CARVING |
PERIOD UNASSIGNED |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
24/10/2018 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
BARNAKILL, DUNARDRY |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NR |
82190 |
91540 |
| New OS NGR |
NR |
82190 |
91540 |
| Lat/Long |
56.06695 |
-5.50069 |
| Obtained By: |
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
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| Position in landscape |
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| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
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| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
This site was visited and recorded through the use of photogrammetric methods as a part of the Scotland's Rock Art project. The upper surface of the rock has been carved with two left hands. The age of the motifs is difficult to determine but as they have a v-shaped profile it is most likely they were created through the use of metal tools. They are positioned on a boulder in a wall in close proximity to a recent track way, which may support a more recent date. Similar motifs of left hands are known on 18th century structures in Argyll such as at Bridge of Fyne (Canmore ID:125384) to the E of Inverary.
Previous Notes
NR89SW 11 8219 9154.
NR 822 915. A possibly Early Bronze Age carving of two hands occurs on a boulder in a massive ruined dyke at the NW end of a small conifer plantation on the E side of the track leading from the Crinan Canal to the deserted village of High Barnakill. It is on the N side of a small burn and about 100yds NE of NR89SW 16.
The boulder is 4'4" long and 1'6" above ground, On the flat top are two incised left hands, 5" apart with possibly natural parallel lines between them. The hands have been deepened by pecking within the outline and the wrists are indicated to the edge of the stone.
They are not identical but both are 7" across the palm and the ball of the thumb by 8" from the heel of the hand to the middle finger-tip, the fingers and thumbs being spread.
The site is well known locally, but no tradition is known.
M Campbell, J G Scott and S Piggott 1963; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; K M Dickie 1966; M Campbell 1963.
NR 8219 9155: The rock is as described.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (DWR) 30 April 1973.
No change to the previous information.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 29 March 1977.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
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Width |
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| Height (max) |
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Height (min) |
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Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
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Grain Size |
No selection
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
No selection
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
No notes added
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
not mentioned
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
