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Canmore ID |
368367 |
SCRAP ID |
3133 |
Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 39298 57495
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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Date Fieldwork Started |
12/10/2017 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
Panel Name |
Allt a' Chuilinn |
Number |
6 |
Other names |
Scatwell |
HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
56F (Nosas survey) |
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
OS NGR |
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New OS NGR |
NH |
39298 |
57495 |
Lat/Long |
57.57882 |
-4.68924 |
Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
Located |
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Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
Weather |
Sunny
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Position in landscape |
Hillside |
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
This boulder, which comprises two boulders one possibly a flake from the other, sits on a S facing hillside, 100m W of the Allt a'Chuilinn, a few metres E of a forest track and to the NE of a power line. The main boulder is large and faces S, the secondary flake measures 1.6m x 1.4m and leans against the SW corner of the main boulder facing SW. It may not be in its original position and may have been disturbed by construction of the nearby track. It was clear that there had been a good outlook to south and west of this panel but this is currently obscured by fast growing birch scrub
C1. Panel Type
In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) |
2.8 |
Width |
2.2 |
Height (max) |
1.3 |
Height (min) |
1.1 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface |
S |
Carved Surface |
S and E |
Carved Surface |
W |
C3. Rock Surface
Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
- Smooth Surface
C5. Panel Notes
There are three carved surfaces to this panel. Two, numbered 1 and 2, are on the S facing and the E facing surfaces of the main boulder and one, surface 3, is on the boulder or flake. Carved surface 1 is on the upper S facing slope of the main boulder and has 1 large cup and 2 smaller cups making a triangle. Carved surface 2 is on the lower part of the steep E facing rock face of the main boulder and has just 1 cup. Carved surface 3 has two cups and is on the SW facing surface of the large leaning slab
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
3 cups on the upper face of the main panel (surface 1), 1 cup on the E face of the main panel (Surface 2) and 2 cups on the slab leaning against the main panel (Surface 3)
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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5
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1
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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.
- 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 trees nearby whose roots might disturb the rock.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
The secondary slab may have been moved by construction of the adjacent track.