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Urchany 4

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Canmore ID 368713 SCRAP ID 3009
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 44278 45373 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 01/11/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Urchany Number 4
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 44278 45373
Lat/Long 57.47179 -4.59831
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sun and light shower
Position in landscape Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SE

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Field System
  • Settlement
  • Enclosure
  • Ditch/Bank
  • Clearance cairn(s)
Other: bronze age bowl barrow, corn drying kiln

B5. Location Notes

This panel has not been previously recorded. It is situated in rough grazing on the S edge of a ridge that is orientated W to E and is at right angles to an undulating hillside that runs from NW to SE down to the Breakchy burn 600m away. There are panoramic views to the W, E, and S, with the ridge of hills to the N. The panel is part of a cluster of cup-marked rocks, Urchany 2 to 7, with Urchany 1 situated 700m to the NE. It lies in sight of and 250 SW of a Bowl Barrow, and beside a deserted eighteenth century settlement. There is an old trackway running W to E 50m to the N. (see Urchany Survey April 2015 RSJ).

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) 1.8 Width 1.7
Height (max) 0.4 Height (min) 0.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface W Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Quartz Veins
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Smooth Surface
Other: Series of three ledges

C5. Panel Notes

This is a roughly pentangular boulder measuring 1.85 x 1.75m, with its longer axis running from W to E. It rises from 0.13 to 0.46m above the surrounding ground level. Its mainly smooth surface is divided into three levels by a series of ledges. There is a W to E running fissure on the lower part of the W facing aspect. The panel has 6 cupmarks on the upper E edge, arranged into two groups comprised of two and four cups. One of the cupmarks is larger than the others.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
6

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

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.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
  • There are other significant animal threats.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

deer roaming the hillside