Rock Art Database

Allt a' Chuilinn 6

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Canmore ID 368367 SCRAP ID 3133
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 39298 57495 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 12/10/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Allt a' Chuilinn Number 6
Other names Scatwell
HER/SMR SM Number 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
New OS NGR NH 39298 57495
Lat/Long 57.57882 -4.68924
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sunny
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

  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • Felled

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

  • Other rock art

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

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) 2.8 Width 2.2
Height (max) 1.3 Height (min) 1.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
15 degrees 60 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface S Carved Surface S and E Carved Surface W

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Not Visible
Rock Type Schist

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
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
5 1

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.
  • There are trees nearby whose roots might disturb the rock.
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

The secondary slab may have been moved by construction of the adjacent track.