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Rogie Farm 73

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Canmore ID 368630 SCRAP ID 945
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 44192 59753 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
Cup Marked Stone
Date Fieldwork Started 19/11/2107 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Rogie Farm Number 73
Other names
HER/SMR MHG53483
 SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 44170 59720
New OS NGR NH 44192 59753
Lat/Long 57.6008 -4.60895
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

  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • New Plantation

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel is in a slight clearing in dense planted forest. The ground here forms a ridge sloping gently to the SE and (without the trees) would have a wide area of visibility overlooking the area from the NE around to the SW with the Black Water river below.

Previous Notes

Five small cups, well spread out on an earthfast boulder c2m in diameter and 1.2m high. This is one a group of twelve stones mostly situated on two knolls. All the stones in this group will be recorded in detail as part of the Ross-shire Rock Art project taking place 2009-2011. <1>

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 3.1 Width 1.9
Height (max) 0.7 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Other
Other: coarse quartz/mica band 		Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Rough surface
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a large, prominent rock outcrop with a flat upper surface 3.1m x 1.9m sloping gently to the E. The N and W edges are perpendicular, whereas the E and S edges are more rounded. The rock is mostly smooth but there is a band of rougher rock with quartz and mica running diagonally from the NW corner. There are 3 cups aligned along the W edge of the panel and 2 aligned along the N edge.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
5

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.
  • Access is managed by a national organisation.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
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
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

Forestry works