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| Canmore ID |
44538 |
SCRAP ID |
922 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NS 51314 73975
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
| CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
23/03/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
WHITEHILL |
Number |
2 |
| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup And Ring Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
DUNBARTONSHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NS |
51300 |
74000 |
| New OS NGR |
NS |
51314 |
73975 |
| Lat/Long |
55.93576 |
-4.38183 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sun and light shower
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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.) |
SSW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
- Rough Grazing
- Wood/Forest
- Route way
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
A large raised outcrop situated on the public path running N from the Cochno Road about 200m away, at a junction in the path. The panel is on a gentle SSW facing slope in bracken and rough grazing on the edge of open deciduous woodland, and about 10m E of a wire fence into improved pasture fields. There are views S to Law Farm and Glasgow. The panel lies 2m N of the carved rock art Whitehill 1 (Canmore 44537, ScRAP 2539) and about 50m SW of the three panels at Whitehill 3, 4 and 5 (all currently grouped under Canmore 44534, ScRAP 1750). Whitehill 6 (Canmore 44517, ScRAP 2139) lies 50m to the SW in woodland.
Previous Notes
NS57SW 35 513 740
See also NS57SW 6, 7, 16, 31, 32, 34, 37, 38, 42, 45, 48 and 70.
A much weathered cup and two complete rings, slightly oval, 17 by 15cm and less than 1/2 cm deep, are carved on an area of smooth gritstone at ground level, 3m by 3m of which was uncovered in 1975. The carving is barely discernable even when wet in low evening sun. The rock lies 55m SW of NS57SW 31 and was found by J M Stables in 1971. Between it and NS57SW 31 there are several cup-marked rocks
R W B Morris 1971; R W B Morris 1981.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
6 |
Width |
4 |
| Height (max) |
1.5 |
Height (min) |
0.3 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
0 |
Carved Surface |
0 |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Friable
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Sandstone
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
- Bedding Planes
C5. Panel Notes
The exposed part of the outcrop is about 6x4m, and rises to a maximum of 1.5m along its S edge, which appears to have been quarried. The panel has an undulating upper surface with a large dip and a depression in its centre. The depression fills with water. There are also numerous fissures, eroding bedding planes, and small natural hollows of various sizes, some of which resemble large cupmarks but are almost certainly natural. The rock is relatively soft and coarse grained, and liable to erosion. It is also located in the pathway and has been eroded by people walking on it. There are very faint traces of a possible cup with 2 rings in the dip near the centre of the panel, but these are very worn and almost impossible to see, even in the 3D model.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Probable
Comments
very very faint motif.
C7. MOTIFS
Cup and Rings
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel Yes
D3. Risk
Natural
- Water will pool deeply on parts of the surface.
Animal
Human
- The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats
The panel is directly on the path and is likely to have been affected both by people walking on it and water pooling over the carved motif.
