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ACHNABRECK 9

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Canmore ID 76424 SCRAP ID 1420
Location OS Grid Ref: NR 86289 90354 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 26/02/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name ACHNABRECK Number 9
Other names
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 NR 86400 90300
New OS NGR NR 86289 90354
Lat/Long 56.05816 -5.43403
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.) Sloping
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SE

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Moorland

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel is located in moorland and rough grazing 15m S of the track to Auchoish Farm and 10m from the gate into a pasture field. It is 20m NW of a high deer fence marking the NE extremity of a forestry plantation, 3m from a stob and wire fence running SW/NE and 10m ENE of an electricity pole.

Previous Notes

NR89SE 32 864 903 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 56 NR 85566 90814 Cup- and ring-marked rock Looking NE from Achnabreck 8 (NR89SE 31) towards Auchoish Cottage, there is a gate at the right hand side of the deer fence. Within 10yds of this gate towards the cottage is a small lumpy knoll of harder rock. Near its top is a single cup mark surrounded by a gapped ring. K Naddair, F Brown, J Tindal and L Lees; NMRS, MS/316.

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 Width 0.5
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees 5 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Not Visible
 Rock Type Gneiss

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Weathering Channels
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

This is rounded, rough-surfaced outcrop with a knobbly, fissured surface, measuring 1 x 0.5m and 0.1m high. It has 1 cup with a single ring, 1 cup with a partial ring, and 2 possible cupmarks at the top of outcrop.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

in addition one possible cup mark.

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
2
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1 cup_and_ring_3
1 1
Partial Ring
partial_ring_arc_2
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
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added