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| Canmore ID |
39551 |
SCRAP ID |
1100 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NR 85664 90564
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
27/03/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
ACHNABRECK |
Number |
5 |
| Other names |
Achnabreck 19 |
| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup And Ring Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NR |
85664 |
90564 |
| New OS NGR |
NR |
85664 |
90564 |
| Lat/Long |
56.05977 |
-5.44421 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Cloudy
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| Position in landscape |
Top of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Sloping |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
S |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
The panel is located on a S facing slope in a field of rough grazing about 700m due N of Mill House, Achnabreck and 100m WNW of old Achnabreck settlement. It appears as a prominent rock outcrop when approaching uphill from the S. It is about 140m SE of the main Achnabreck carved rocks (Achnabreck 1 Canmore 399552, ScRAP 2762, and Achnabreck 2).
Previous Notes
NR89SE 19 85664 90564
Location formerly entered as NR 8566 9055.
See also:
NR89SE 2 Centred NR 85570 90690 Cup- and ring-marked rocks
NR89SE 13 NR 85537 90197 Standing Stone
NR89SE 20 NR 85720 90655 Cup- and ring-marked rock
NR89SE 27 NR 857 906 Cup-marked rock
NR89SE 28 NR 860 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock
NR89SE 29 NR 862 904 Cup-marked rock
NR89SE 30 NR 862 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock
NR89SE 31 NR 862 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock
NR89SE 32 NR 864 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock
NR89SE 56 NR 85566 90814 Cup- and ring-marked rock
On the crest of a rock outcrop which lies in a pasture field about 140m SE of NR89SE 2, there are faint traces of what may be a group of cup-and-ring marks, but on the date of visit they were too indistinct to record in detail. Morris records that the decoration included one cup with two probable rings, three cups with single rings and a single plain cupmark.
R W B Morris 1977; RCAHMS 1988, visited May 1984.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
7 |
Width |
5.4 |
| Height (max) |
2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
S |
Carved Surface |
E |
Carved Surface |
S |
C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
Other
Other: lichen
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Weathering Channels
- Rough surface
C5. Panel Notes
This is a large rounded outcrop about 7 x 5.4m and maximum 2m height, dotted with moss and lichen. It has a relatively narrow flat top, which is carved, and a steeply sloping S face that falls away at 45 degree to the lower ground level. The carvings are faint and eroded, but appear to include 2 cups with 2 rings or partial rings, 2 cups with single rings, and 3 cupmarks.
A previous 3D model can be seen on sketchfab ID cdf982a7f1e94117922190b9710b7056
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
Weathered not distinct.
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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3
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Cup and Rings
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2
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2
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
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.
Human
Comments and other potential threats
There is no moss cover, therefore it is very exposed to weathering.
