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DRUIM MOR 24

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Canmore ID 368473 SCRAP ID 3061
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57737 66103 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 20/08/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 24
Other names Drumore DS24
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
New OS NGR NH 57737 66103
Lat/Long 57.66226 -4.38626
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
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

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Burial Mound/Cairn
  • Enclosure

B5. Location Notes

This panel is located close to the top of a SE facing slope, with extensive views of Swordale, Cromarty Firth and Black Isle. It is one of a group of 23 panels in a scheduled area SM4945, the outline of which used to be fenced and is still visible. This panel is located towards the centre of a cluster of panels on the S side of the scheduled area, approximately 50m to the E of the SW edge of the scheduled area, 55m S of the S edge and 50m NW of the SE edge.

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) 1.4 Width 1.1
Height (max) 0.5 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
4 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface S Carved Surface N Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Very Coarse Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks

C5. Panel Notes

This panel has been carved with 2 very poor, possible cups. The larger of these measures 42mm in diameter and is 7mm deep, the second is 30mm diameter and 5 mm deep. Both of the motifs can be found on the lower rock surface.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
2

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
  • No selection
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added