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| Canmore ID |
370658 |
SCRAP ID |
3518 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 41922 60432
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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 |
27/06/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
ACHADH MOR |
Number |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
Nosas2012 22 |
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 |
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| New OS NGR |
NH |
41922 |
60432 |
| Lat/Long |
57.6061 |
-4.64733 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny
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| Position in landscape |
Hillside |
| 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
- Burnt Mound
- Field System
- Settlement
- Hut circle(s)
B5. Location Notes
The panel lies at an altitude of 196m in forestry in a small valley on a generally SE facing hillside, just 20m to the SW of a burnt mound. It is also close to and above a multiperiod settlement site, overlooking Loch Garve and what is now, and probably always has been, a major routeway between the E and W coasts of Scotland
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) |
2.5 |
Width |
1 |
| Height (max) |
1 |
Height (min) |
0.5 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
SW |
Carved Surface |
SW |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Quartz Veins
Other: poor quality garnets up to 3cms in size
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Bedding Planes
- Weathering Channels
- Rough surface
C5. Panel Notes
This roughly rectangular schist boulder measures 2.5 x 1m with a maximum height of 1m. Its upper surface is rough with ridges of bedding planes and garnet inclusions. There is a line of four cups on the upper surface. All are between 8 and 10 cms diameter, one is well defined and 2cms deep the others much more eroded and just 1cm deep. It is possible that there could be faint rings around two of the three eroded cups.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
The cups are definite, rings around two of them are possible
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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4
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Access is managed by a national organisation.
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.
- Water will pool deeply on parts of the surface.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
The panel is known to FLS who manage the land and they are aware of the archaeology in the vicinity. Since we last visited in 2012 there has been selective clear felling, but the part of the forest in which the panel sits is still standing. However an area around the panel has been hand felled and it is now in its own little clearing besides piles of waste wood.
