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Urchany 3

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Canmore ID 368712 SCRAP ID 3119
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 44275 45613 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 11/01/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Urchany Number 3
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 44275 45613
Lat/Long 57.47395 -4.59851
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
Position in landscape Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SW

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Settlement
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

The panel is situated on undulating ground sloping gently to the SW. The Allt an Locha Bhallaich runs about 100m to the W and there are extensive views to the S across the valley of the Breakachy burn towards Breakachy Hill. The panel lies 4m W of Urchany 2 panel (ScRAP ID 3004). It is about 200m N of the low stone and turf footings of a roughly rectangular enclosure and bronze age barrow (Canmore ID345775). The low stone footings of 2 rectangular ruined buildings lie about 150m to the SW.

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) 1.4 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.5 Height (min) 0.3
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SW Carved Surface SW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Fine Visible Anomalies Other
Other: Mica 		Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This is a small roughly rectangular stone measuring about 1.8 x 0.8m with its long axis lying E-W. Its maximum width is at the E end narrowing slightly to the W end. It is low lying with a maximum height of 0.5m at the W end and 0.3m at the E end. It slopes gently to the SW. The upper surface is smooth and fairly flat with some shallow natural fissures orientated mainly on the E-W axis and also a natural fissure running N-S roughly across the middle of the panel. 2 cups are located on this fissure and one of these is a large cup 8cm diameter and 3cm deep. There are in total 7 cups on the W part of the upper rock surface.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

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C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
6 1

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

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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