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DOCHNACLEAR 1

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Canmore ID 12926 SCRAP ID 700
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 51102 60527 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 21/11/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DOCHNACLEAR Number 1
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 51270 60350
New OS NGR NH 51102 60527
Lat/Long 57.61008 -4.49392
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Moved from original location
  • In private collection
  • Surface find
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
Position in landscape Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) S

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Urban/Garden

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

The rock art is on a large stone which has been moved to the garden of the owner of the land and erected in a gravelled area. The garden is just below the minor road on the lower slopes of Cioch Mhor and the stone was originally recorded further down the slope and was previously recorded on Canmore and HER in that position.

Previous Notes

NH56SW 16 5127 6035. Situated at NH 5127 6035 in an arable field and immediately W of a fence is a cup-marked stone, obviously removed from its unknown previous position during recent field clearance. The stone measures 1.4 m long by 0.6 m tapering to 0.4m; it is 0.25 m thick. On the present upper surface there are approximately 18 cup marks; the best of these are 4 cm in diameter and 1 cm deep. Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (J B) 26 Feburary 1980.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 0.7 Width 0.3
Height (max) 1.3 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
90 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface S Carved Surface Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Colour Bands
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

C5. Panel Notes

This large free standing stone measures 0.3m thick by 0.7m wide and is 1.3m high. There are 13 cupmarks in total, with possibly a further 7 cupmarks visible on the photogrammetry, scattered over the S facing side of the stone. One of cups has a possible partial ring. Two of the lower cups appear to be joined by a groove, and a single cup just about them seems to have another shorter groove going off the edge of the stone.

C6. Probability

The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is Definite

Comments

One of the cups has a possible partial ring

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_5
17 3

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Panel is on Private land.

D2. Awareness

  • This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added