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DRUIM MOR 10

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Canmore ID 368461 SCRAP ID 3281
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57764 66233 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 01/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 10
Other names
HER/SMR 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
New OS NGR NH 57764 66233
Lat/Long 57.66344 -4.38588
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.) N

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • New Plantation

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

On higher ground at Druim Mor c.400m to the WNW of Drumore Farmhouse, this panel lies c.150m to the W of the gate which provides access to the E end of the Christmas tree plantation, on the edge of the plantation 8 m from a deer fence which runs E-W, across a grassy strip, and between two other rocks aligned N/S. Views from the panel overlook Glen Glass to the N, with a view out to the Cromarty Firth entrance and the Souters to the E and up to Swordale Hill to the W.

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) 1.2 Width 1.1
Height (max) 0.4 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface S Carved Surface S Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

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

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly diamond shaped panel with an upper and a lower surface, which measures 1.2m in length, 1.1m in width and up to 0.4m in height. The upper surface of the panel has been carved with 2 large cups - each measuring 9cm in diameter and 3cm in depth - and a smaller cup which lies beside a fissure, measuring 6cm in diameter and 2cm in depth.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
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
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
  • There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

Harvesting of the Christmas trees may cause a potential threat to the panel.