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| Canmore ID |
370673 |
SCRAP ID |
964 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NR 87704 99550
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
16/06/2017 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
BARMOLLOCH |
Number |
2 |
| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
67763
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NR |
87699 |
99533 |
| New OS NGR |
NR |
87704 |
99550 |
| Lat/Long |
56.14127 |
-5.41866 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Light Rain
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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.) |
E |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
Other: Crannog
B5. Location Notes
The panel is situated in rough grazing that has been recently mounded for afforestation, It lies on the terrace of an E facing hillside overlooking a steep valley with a burn and the abandoned settlement of Barmolloch below. It is on the promentory where the burn turns a corner and the valley swings round from the NW to the E. It is about 0.5km N of Loch Lethen. The large scheduled panel of Barmolloch 1 (Camore 318809, ScRAP 809) lies about 90m to the N, and the original Canmore entry for Baramolloch 1 also included Barmolloch 2 and 3. This panel record for Barmolloch 2 (HER 67763, ScRAP 964) originally also included Barmolloch 3, about 20m to the W, which has now been recorded under a separate ScRAP record. The general location of this panel can be viewed in the Canmore and ScRAP records for Barmolloch 3.
Previous Notes
WoSAS Pin 67763
NR 8769 9953
Two groups of cup-markings, approximately 20m apart, were exposed during ground preparation for a tree-planting scheme at Barmolloch. A buffer was established around these features, to ensure that they were not further damaged by planting.
Information from Hrdlicka, J., Scottish Woodlands 04/05/2016
These markings are located around 90m to the south-east of an extensive group of scheduled cup-markings (WoSAS Pin 59891), and indeed may represent part of the same grouping
Entered WoSAS (MO'H) 04/05/2016
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.2 |
Width |
0.4 |
| Height (max) |
0 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Fine
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
Other: machine damage
C5. Panel Notes
This is an elongated narrow area of exposed schist bedrock measuring about 1.18 x 0.35m, flat and flush with the ground, very difficult to see in the marshy vegetation. Its surface features numerous fissures and some natural depressions. There is one well-defined cupmark near the centre of the long axis of the panel, and a small circular area of possible pecking about 1cm from this. There is evidence of machine damage on the surface.
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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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? Yes
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
- Access is managed by a national organisation.
D2. Awareness
- This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
- Large amounts of water are likely to flow over the carved surface.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
Commercial forestry is planned but not yet planted.
