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| Canmore ID |
368433 |
SCRAP ID |
3321 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 5879 6367
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
01/02/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
CNOC AN TEAMPUILL |
Number |
1 |
| 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 And Ring Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
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| New OS NGR |
NH |
5879 |
6367 |
| Lat/Long |
57.64076 |
-4.3672 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
- Moved from original location
- Re-located
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny Intervals
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| Position in landscape |
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| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Sloping |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
S |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
Other: ruined medieval chapel or burial cairn
B5. Location Notes
The panel is located near the middle of a large arable field between, to the W, the minor public road to Blackhills and, to the E, the policies of Foulis Castle. It lies on the S side bank of a low grass and nettle covered mound of rubble that is thought to be the ruined remains of an old wayside chapel called Cnoc an Teampuill, or a burial cairn (see Canmore ID 12897). The panel was ploughed up from nearby in the later 20th century and moved to its present location for safety (Hector Munro pers comm). Since 2010 an area of non-cultivation has been established around the chapel/burial site. The cup marked stone Cnoc an Teampuill 2 is not far away.
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.3 |
Width |
1 |
| Height (max) |
0.3 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
S |
Carved Surface |
S |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Fine
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Visible Anomalies |
Quartz Veins
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
Other: a piece 0.3 x 0.3m which is falling off
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is a flat rectangular slab of schist measuring 1.3m x 1.0m and 0.3m thick, decorated over the whole upper surface. There are 54 cups, some of which are at the end of grooves. In addition, 8 wide courgette-type grooves, and 2 cups with faint single rings. The largest cup is 75mm in diameter and 25mm deep. The is also some plough damage. The surface is heavily eroded, and a part of the surface which has 1 cup and part of a cup on it is loose/spalling.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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53
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1
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Cup and Rings
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2
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Groove
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8
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
D2. Awareness
- Panel was known before the project.
- This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
- The rock is within or on the edge of arable land.
- This panel has been estimated to be seriously at risk of being damaged or destroyed.
Comments and other potential threats
If land management changed and livestock introduced there is a risk to this stone. The recently established non-cultivation area around the chapel site is being mown annually to within 2m of the stone.
