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GREAT BERNERA, BERNERA BRIDGE

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Canmore ID 4111 SCRAP ID 802
Location OS Grid Ref: NB 16400 34200 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 13/06/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name GREAT BERNERA, BERNERA BRIDGE Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Bait Hole Period 1 Period Unknown
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NB 16400 34200
New OS NGR NB 16400 34200
Lat/Long 58.20503 -6.8296
Obtained By:

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Documented as destroyed
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • No selection

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

No notes added
Previous Notes

NB13SE 12 164 342 Local informants state that a group of cupmarks (no details given), situated some 300m W of Dun Barraglom (NB13SE 5) was destroyed by the construction of the N abutment of Bernera Bridge (at NB 1646 3424) in 1953. M R Ponting and G R Curtis 1987.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

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

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness No selection Grain Size No selection Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type No selection

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

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

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • No selection

D2. Awareness

  • No selection
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