Rock Art Database - Scotland's Rock Art Project

ACHNABRECK 10

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Canmore ID

300104

SCRAP ID

1328

Location OS Grid Ref:

NR 85566 90814

Team

Not in team

Existing Classifications

Classification	Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK	PREHISTORIC

Date Fieldwork Started	11/04/2019	Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel?	No

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name	ACHNABRECK		Number	10
Other names
HER/SMR		SM Number	SM12957	Other

Classifications And Periods

Classification 1

Cup And Ring Marked Rock

Period 1

Neol/bronze Age

County

ARGYLL

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR	NR	85566	90814
New OS NGR	NR	85566	90814
Lat/Long	56.06196	-5.44598
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	Top of hill
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

Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

Mature
Felled
New Plantation

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

Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel is located in forestry 20m S of the fire trail next to fallen tree roots. To the S the ground falls sharply away to boggy ground before rising to again to the main carved outcrops at Achnabreck 1 and 2 (Canmore 39552, ScRAP 2762) enclosed by Historic Environment Scotland railings.

Previous Notes

NR 85566 90814 The rock art panel was first discovered in January 2008 when storms blew over a group of substantial tree roots revealing the rock panel below. The aims of this project were to identify the extent of the site and explore the nature and character of any activities associated with its construction and use and to recover dating material. An excavation was undertaken from 28ñ30 May 2008 a watching brief was also conducted on the installation of the re-routed cycle track on 3 June 2008. The excavation revealed 12 motifs, consisting of cup and ring markings and 43 individual cup marks. The new site lies close to Scotlandís largest rock art panel at Achnabreck 1 and adds to the extraordinary concentration of rock art in the Achnabreck vicinity. No further rock art was uncovered during the watching brief. Archive: Kilmartin House Museum (intended). Report: WoSAS SMR, RCAHMS and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (intended) Funder: Forestry Commission Roddy Regan (Kilmartin House Museum), 2008

See also: NR89SE 2 Centred NR 85570 90690 Cup- and ring-marked rocks NR89SE 13 NR 85537 90197 Standing Stone NR89SE 19 NR 85664 90564 Cup- and ring-marked rock NR89SE 20 NR 85720 90655 Cup- and ring-marked rock NR89SE 27 NR 857 906 Cup-marked rock NR89SE 28 NR 860 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock NR89SE 29 NR 862 904 Cup-marked rock NR89SE 30 NR 862 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock NR89SE 31 NR 862 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock NR89SE 32 NR 864 903 Cup- and ring-marked rock

Scheduled as 'Achnabreck, prehistoric rock carvings 485m NNE of... an area of outcropping bedrock onto which prehistoric rock art has been carved. There are 11 main motifs, mostly comprising cupmarks and rings.' Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 19 July 2011.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape

Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)

Length (longer axis)	6	Width	3.3
Height (max)	0.9	Height (min)	0.3

Approximate slope of carved surface

degrees

Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)

Rock Surface

Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness

Hard

Grain Size

Medium

Visible Anomalies

Quartz Veins

Rock Type

Schist

C4. Surface Features

Fissures/cracks
Bedding Planes
Weathering Channels

C5. Panel Notes

This large schist outcrop, measuring 6 x 3.3m and 0.9m high, has a rough, fissured surface with weathering channels. There are a number of simple and large, complex motifs on its gently sloping surface. In one corner there are 2 large, superimposed or connected cup and ring motifs, one with 6 rings and 2 radials, the other with 4 rings and a radial, and both have a series of cupmarks placed between concentric rings. On another corner there is a cup with 6 rings and a radial, with cupmarks enclosed within concentric rings. Other motifs include 1 cup with 2 rings, 1 cup with a single ring, 1 cup with single ring and radial, 1 cup with single ring, radial and partial second ring, 1 cup with single ring, keyhole radial and partial second ring, 3 cups with partial rings, 4 cups with radials, 4 single cups, 4 cups within a square groove, and a series of short parallel grooves.