Rock Art Database

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Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Classifications And Periods

County

INVERNESS-SHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

B2. Current land use & vegetation

• Improved Pasture

B3. Forestry

• No selection

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

• Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

Approx 4kms SW of the centre of Kiltarlity a broad ridge, a druim, runs in a SW direction between the line of the Beauly River and Strathglass to the NW and the smaller Allt an Loin to the SE. This ridge is extensively farmed as the crofting community of Kinerras, mostly as pasture. There are areas of woodland amongst the fields. Access to the field in which this stone lies is from the W, from the main drive to another farm called Kinerras at NH 4663 3978. From the drive a field of improved close-cropped pasture rises up to a post and wire fence, beyond which is another field sloping steeply to the NE. Just beyond the fence are three low stones lying in the close-cropped grass, the most northerly one of which is the "Nine-Holed Stone". This panel lies 10m E of the fence. At the northern end of this field is scattered loose woodland, the margins of which are delineated by large mounds of field clearance. There is another cup-marked stone, the Kinerras Stone (Canmore ID: 12395), in a field of rough grazing approx. 150m to the NE, across a deer fence. The crofting community of Culburnie with three Clava type cairns (Canmore ID's: 12397, 12388, 12391) lies three kms to the NE. This is a landscape with many pre-historic archaeological features of settlement and agriculture. Both cups were first recorded by William Jolly in an article in the Proceedings of the Scottish Archaeological Society in 1882 (PSAS, 1882, vol 16, pp 300-401).

Previous Notes

NH43NE 3 4665 3994. A cup-marked stone, known locally as the "Nine-holed Stone' lies on the ridge near the farm of Fuaranbuie. It bears at least nine cups in a close group at one end of the stone, two pairs of which are united by grooves. They are carved on the surface of a bluish, fine-grained hard horneblende slab, lying flat on the ground and partly imbedded. W Jolly 1882 This cup-marked stone,located in an arable field at NH 4665 39941, is still known locally as the 'Nine Holed Stone'. It measures 1.4 metres by 1.5metres by 0.3 metres high, and the nine cup marks very in size from 1 1/2" in diam. by 1/2" deep to 2" in diam. by 3/4" deep. No trace of any grooves joining any pair of cup-marks could be seen. Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (R D) 14 December 1964

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

C3. Rock Surface

C4. Surface Features

• Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

Lying flat on the ground, surrounded by close-cropped grass, this prominent roughly triangular panel measures 1.7m NS by 1.4m EW and stands 0.3m at its highest point. It is smoothly domed, the highest point being roughly in the middle. The carved surface lies on the domed surface of the broad southern part of the panel. The surface of the panel is smooth, with no obvious fissures or features. The nine cups, as in the name, are configured in the form of a ring of six cups, with a curving "handle" of three cups leading from it northwards.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

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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

• This panel is known to others in the local community.

There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural

• No selection

Animal

• There are sheep near the rock.

Human

• No selection

Comments and other potential threats

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