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STILLAIG 2

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Canmore ID 370775 SCRAP ID 3572
Location OS Grid Ref: NR 94284 68342 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 27/06/2021 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name STILLAIG Number 2
Other names Stillaig 1d (Naddir et al)
HER/SMR SM Number 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
New OS NGR NR 94284 68342
Lat/Long 55.86422 -5.28906
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.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SE

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

The panel is situated approximately 400m S of Stillaig farmhouse in area of wettish rough vegetation on the W edge of improved grazing ground and 1m E of Stillaig 1, on the same outcrop. It is low lying on gentle slope rising from the valley bottom, and about 100m SE of a fence line. Further to the E rises a hill currently topped by commercial timber plantation. Approximately 200m to the W is a gorse covered outcrop 150m long lying roughly NW. Stillaig 2 was originally recorded in the same Canmore record as Stillaig 1 (Canmore 39830, ScRAP 670).

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) 1.3 Width 0.6
Height (max) 0.3 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
14 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SE Carved Surface SE Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Fossils
 Rock Type Not Sure

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Weathering Channels
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This is a roughly triangular area of exposed outcrop measuring about 1.34 x 0.6m and 0.3m high. The surface has 25 cups, possibly more, of fairly uniform size, about 15 of which form a close grid in NW corner of panel. One of the cups has a possible single ring

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
24
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1
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

  • No selection
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No obvious threats.