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| Canmore ID |
39527 |
SCRAP ID |
987 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NR 83396 99463
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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 |
23/10/2018 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
UPPER LARGIE |
Number |
1 |
| 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 Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NR |
83390 |
99460 |
| New OS NGR |
NR |
83396 |
99463 |
| Lat/Long |
56.13855 |
-5.48778 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Rain
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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.) |
0 |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
Other:gravel quarry
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Burial Mound/Cairn
B5. Location Notes
The panel is located on a large rocky outcrop on top of a ridge forming the E edge of an active gravel quarry to the NW of the village Kilmartin. The outcrop has clear views in all directions and particularly over the N end of Kilmartin Glen, and towards Kilmartin village about 500 m to the S. Glebe Cairn (Canmore ID: 39357) is also visible to the W of the village within Kilmartin Glen. The outcrop forms the uppermost part of the ridge and covers an area of approximately 15 m x 10 m. To the E side of the ridge the land slopes steeply through a small area of mature woodland down to a flat field used for rough grazing, which lies to the W of the private road leading to Upper Largie farm. The outcrop is largely covered in turf, moss and reeds. A number of areas were investigated by lifting turf, where possible (see sketch for Upper Largie Quarry area) and two panels were identified: Upper Largie 1 and Upper Largie 2. A further panel, Upper Largie 3 (Canmore ID: 83189), is located in a field approximately 150 m to the NE.
Upper Largie 1 is located on the W side of the outcrop, just below its highest point, in a flat area which drops steeply just beyond the panel's W edge, towards the quarry and a field boundary. It lies about 10 m to the W of Upper Largie 2.
Previous Notes
NR89NW 80 8339 9946.
In rough ground on E edge of gravel terrace on E slope of a mossy exposure of smooth rock, 5 single cups, of which 4 are close together and the other c.2m to S.
A Kahane 1983.
NR 834 994. Situated in the corner of an arable field, and about 2m S of the highest point of a low rocky outcrop 500m SSW of Upper Largie farmhouse, there is a rock-sheet which bears four weathered cupmarks (up to 80mm by 20mm); a single isolated cupmark is visible 1.6m to the S. A single large cupmark (90mm by 20mm) lies 31m to the NNE.
Visited March 1984.
RCAHMS 1998a.
NR 8338 9947. Six yards S of the above, excavation revealed a further 17 cups.
Sponsor:Keltic Research Society.
Naddair 1994d.
NR 8342 9945 Adjacent to the rock bearing four plain cups (supra) is a smooth outcrop panel with four plain cups; four doubtful grooves; one crude cup with oval gapped ring and runner-cup: two cups with two gapped rings, one with short tail.
van Hoek and van Hoek 1994c.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.4 |
Width |
1.1 |
| Height (max) |
0 |
Height (min) |
0 |
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 |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
epidiorite
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
C5. Panel Notes
Upper Largie 1 is roughly rectangular in shape and measures approximately 1.4 x 1.1 m. It lies on a flat area to the W side of the outcrop of which it forms part, and is flush with the ground.
There are three large cupmarks lying in a line running broadly NE-SW, with a smaller cupmark close by and to the W side of this grouping. Further to the W of this arrangement, on the other side of a natural fissure, there is a large dumbbell motif, also lying on a NE-SW axis, and which appears to have been formed through enhancement of a natural hollow. A further possible cupmark lies on the edge of the natural depression running from the S end of the dumbbell motif. It was not possible to remove turf to the S end of the panel to establish the position of any further markings described following previous surveys.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
1 possible cupmark
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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5
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? Yes
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam 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.
Animal
Human
- There are quarries nearby.
Comments and other potential threats
The panel lies at the edge of a gravel quarry which is being actively exploited and expanded.
