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STRATH SGITHEACH ALLT NA CRICHE 1

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Canmore ID 368635 SCRAP ID 3319
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 52223 62909 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 07/08/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name STRATH SGITHEACH ALLT NA CRICHE Number 1
Other names Panel A on Canmore 12923
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 52223 62909
Lat/Long 57.63182 -4.47663
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing
  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
Other: Post medieval rig and furrow

B5. Location Notes

The panel lies on the lower slopes of Cioch Mhor to the N and overlooking the Abhainn Sgitheach to the S and views to the Cromarty Firth to the S. This cup marked rock is an outcrop and one of several scattered around a small knoll with the remains of a dry river bed to the NE. The river bed may have been part of the Allt an Criche which still flows to the NE. The knoll is to the NE of a much braided track from the Sgitheach in the SE to Cioch and Mhor and Ben Wyvis to the NW. There are a group of cup marked rocks and outcrops around the knoll, the majority to the N and W of the Scots pines. Strath Sgitheach has many prehistoric monuments, hut circles, chambered cairns and more groups of rock art. There are also signs of continuous cultivation into recent times with rig and furrow near the knoll. The area is presently rough grazing used by a few sheep and deer and it is likely that there is some game shooting. The knoll has a scatter of very old Scots pines and is partly grass and heather with some bracken around the outcrop.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 3.1 Width 2.1
Height (max) 0.7 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
28 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SE Carved Surface SE Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Nodules
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is an outcrop measuring 3.10m E-W by 2.10m and up to 0.70m high, sloping to the SE. There are 18 cupmarks scattered across the upper surface of the outcrop, mainly on the N section with a single cupmark on the SE edge.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
18

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

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
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added