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BUTE, CRAIGBEROCH

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Canmore ID 40383 SCRAP ID 1287
Location OS Grid Ref: NS 07457 63648 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
STANDING STONE PREHISTORIC
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 31/05/2020 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name BUTE, CRAIGBEROCH Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
Classification 2 Standing Stone Period 2 Neol/bronze Age
County
BUTESHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NS 07452 63652
New OS NGR NS 07457 63648
Lat/Long 55.82755 -5.07556
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.) Flat
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.)

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Bog/Marsh
  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

This prominent standing stone is situated in a level boggy area of rough grazing, surrounded by rushes and gorse. It lies approximately 40m SW of the farm steading and a power line pole, and due S of a burial cairn From the standing stone the view WSW is to Barone Hill.

Previous Notes

Situated in a level pasture field is a pointed and angular standing stone. It is 2.4m high, 0.9m at its broadest point and 0.4m thick. Its SW face bears three cup marks, at 0.7m, 1.5m and 1.9m above ground level. Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (TRG) 2 November 1976

(NS 0745 6366) Standing Stone (NR) OS 6" map (1957) An 8ft high standing stone is situated 50yds SSE of Craigbiorach. Its SW face bears two cup-marks 26ins and 44 ins from the ground. Information from OS (IF) 4 July 1972 ref: R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967

This site was recorded as part of the RCAHMS Emergency Survey, undertaken by Angus Graham and Vere Gordon Childe during World War 2. The project archive has been catalogued during 2013-2014 and the material, which includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, plans and photographs, is now available online. Information from RCAHMS (GF Geddes) 2 December 2014.

This standing stone is as described by the OS. Graffiti on the NE side includes dates that are barely legible and the initials 'JS' and 'IP'. Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, JH) 22 April 2009.

NS06SE 19 07452 63652. (NS 0745 6366) Standing Stone (NR) OS 6" map (1957) An 8ft high standing stone is situated 50yds SSE of Craigbiorach. Its SW face bears two cup-marks 26ins and 44 ins from the ground. R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967 Situated in a level pasture field is a pointed and angular standing stone. It is 2.4m high, 0.9m at its broadest point and 0.4m thick. Its SW face bears three cup marks, at 0.7m, 1.5m and 1.9m above ground level. Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (TRG) 2 November 1976 This standing stone is as described by the OS. Graffiti on the NE side includes dates that are barely legible and the initials 'JS' and 'IP'. Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, JH) 22 April 2009.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In a structure Standing stone monument

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 2.3 Width 1.1
Height (max) 0.3 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
90 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SW Carved Surface SW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

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

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks

C5. Panel Notes

The standing stone is a roughly triangular schist slab, measuring 2.3m high x 1.12m wide, with a thickness of 0.3m. It is wide at the base and tapers to a point at its tip. The carved surface faces SW but may be on a different orientation from its original setting as a local farmer noted that the stone was accidentally knocked over . On the vertical SW face there are 3 cupmarks, on the NE face there is graffiti carved in two rectangles, possibly PB and IP. Prominent grooves can be seen running at 45 degrees across the N face, which may relate to when it was re-erected.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
3

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.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • There is graffiti (paintings and/or carving) on or near the rock.
Comments and other potential threats

A local farmer gave the information that the stone was accidentally knocked over and marks on the N edge may be related to this. Reinstated, but the orientation may be different.