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Canmore ID |
12737 |
SCRAP ID |
928 |
Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 54714 41787
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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Classification |
Period |
CUP MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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Date Fieldwork Started |
12/12/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
Panel Name |
LEANACH |
Number |
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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 Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
OS NGR |
NH |
54710 |
41790 |
New OS NGR |
NH |
54714 |
41787 |
Lat/Long |
57.44308 |
-4.42234 |
Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
Located |
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Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
Weather |
Cloudy
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Position in landscape |
Top of hill |
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Flat |
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
The panel is located about 60m SW of Leanach farmhouse, accessed round the SE end of the farm buildings in a mature and overgrown plantation. It is on the E edge of a prominent overgrown outcrop and about 5m NE of the boundary fence.
Previous Notes
NH54SW 13 5471 4179.
NH 547 417. There are at least six cup-marks on an outcrop of rock situated 70 m SW of Leanach farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1978
At NH 5471 4179, on the SE extremity of a rock outcrop, are twelve cup marks.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 6 Feburary 1981
NH 44/54 OS 547418 No. 66 Leanach.
On the face of a rock a few yards south of Leanach Farmhouse there are about half-a-dozen cup marks, and on the south gable of the house there appears to be the fossil of a small snake. The cup marks are recorded.
Coghill et al 1989
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) |
1.3 |
Width |
1 |
Height (max) |
0.6 |
Height (min) |
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Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
SE |
Carved Surface |
SW |
C3. Rock Surface
Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Quartz Veins
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is a squarish block of schist, 1.3m x 1.0m x 0.6m high. It lies against an outcrop of which it appears to be a detached piece. There are 20 cups in total. The top surface slopes 10° to the SE and has 11 cups, the SW facing surface slopes at 45° and has 9 cups.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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20
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Panel is on Private land.
D2. Awareness
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.
- There are trees nearby whose roots might disturb the rock.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added