Rock Art Database

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Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Classifications And Periods

County

ARGYLL

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

B2. Current land use & vegetation

• Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

• No selection

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

• Other rock art
• Burial Mound/Cairn
• Standing Stone

B5. Location Notes

Glennan 1 is situated SE of the entrance to Easter Eurach farm, next to the farm track, and acts as the capstone of a partially-collapsed burial cairn (also Canmore ID 22789). It is located in a farm field on the valley floor used for animal grazing, to the SE of B840 road in the Old Glennan area. The farm buildings, and a standing stone, are also to the S and E of the panel. A post-and-wire fence separates this field and an arable field to the SW. Glennan 2 is located to the NW across the field, at the end of the field wall where a wooded, rocky slope meets the valley floor.

Previous Notes

NM80SE 30 8565 0117. (NM 8565 0117) Cairns (NR) (The annotation embraces NM80SE 30 and 32) OS 1:10,000 map, (1975) On the east side of the road, about 450 metres SSW of Creaganterve Beg farm buildings is a round cairn, 41' in diameter, 4' in height with a distrubed hollowed top 21' across. In the centre is the exposed capstone of a cist measuring 4' 6" by 4' 6" and bearing 9 shallow cup marks on the flattened central area of its upper side. M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; F Newall 1960. This grass-covered cairn, situated in flat arable land, measures 11.6 metres in diameter and is 1.3 metres high, with no definite trace of a kerb. A distinctive band of marsh grass around its base could represent a ditch. The hollowed top contains a stone 1.6 by 1.3 metres with 9 cups on its upper face. Surveyed at 1:2500 scale. Visited by OS (D W R) 7 October 1971. Situated on level ground 440m SW of Creagantairbh Beag farmhouse and 20m E of the public road (B840), there are two cairns (Campbell and Sandeman 1964). The N cairn measures 11.5m in diameter by 1.5m in height, and its centre has been disturbed, revealing what is probably the overturned cover slab of a cist. This slab, which measures 1.6m by 1.2m, bears at least nine cupmarks. A slight depression surrounding the cairn may indicate the presence of a ditch. About 3m to the SSW there is a second cairn, measuring 6.6m in diameter by 0.8m in height, and its centre has also been disturbed. Visited June 1982 RCAHMS 1988

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

C3. Rock Surface

C4. Surface Features

• Fissures/cracks
• Bedding Planes
• Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

Glennan 1 measures 1.7 m by 1.1 m, with a maximum height of 0.2 m. In summer it is surrounded by tall rushes (visited in August) but no shrubs grow on the panel and the surface itself is covered only by easily-removed moss. The main carved surface is fairly flat and weathered, with a rough and fissured texture, and is inclined 8 degrees to the SE. Nine solo cup marks are visible (three noticeably larger than the others), and there are three further possible cups. The cups are situated in the centre of the stone surface with no carvings visible around the edges.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

In addition there are 3 possible cupmarks.

C7. MOTIFS

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.

Animal

• There are sheep near the rock.
• There are cattle near the rock.

Human

• No selection

Comments and other potential threats

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