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| Canmore ID |
51869 |
SCRAP ID |
1435 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NT 24671 62612
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP AND RING MARKED STONE |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
15/12/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
GLENCORSE |
Number |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
MEL8170
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup And Ring Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
MIDLOTHIAN
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NT |
24670 |
62610 |
| New OS NGR |
NT |
24671 |
62612 |
| Lat/Long |
55.8508 |
-3.20475 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
- Moved from original location
- Re-located
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny Intervals
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| Position in landscape |
Bottom of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Flat |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
Other:Outside Church
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
The panel is located within an enclosure of iron railings set against the E wall of Glencorse Church, 8m to west of the vestry door and on the edge of the car parking area, between the parking signs for Minister and Reserved. It is visible from the Glencorse House road. The stone was relocated here some time ago.
Previous Notes
NT26SW 18 2467 6261
A fine cupmarked boulder lies in the churchyard of Glencorse Parish Church. It measures 0.91m by 0.74m and 0.34m in thickness and bears at least twenty-six cupmarks, ten of them with encircling ring-marks. The stone is reported to have been found on the hill above the old parish church (NT 2452 6303). There is said to have been a second cup-and-ring marked stone at the old parish church, but it is now lost.
RCAHMS 1929; R W B Morris 1969; J N G Ritchie and A Ritchie 1972; R W B Morris 1981; RCAHMS 1988.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS 3 February 1970 and 9 December 1975.
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
0.8 |
Width |
0.5 |
| Height (max) |
0.3 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
ENE |
Carved Surface |
ENE |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Friable
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Sandstone
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
This is a roughly rectangular sandstone fragment measuring 0.8 x 0.5m and 0.3m thick. It has been quarried from a larger stone or outcrop in the past and its N edge has quarrying marks, while its underside is rough and broken. It rests on its underside, with the carved surface sloping to the ENE, and an uncarved section sloping to the WSW. There are 13 well defined and deep cupmarks, 4 of which are aligned, a cup with radial, a pair of conjoined cups, a short courgette motif and 3 cups with single penannulars, and radials which run to the edge of the stone. The motifs are partly obscured by moss, which was not removed during recording to respect the wishes of the Session Clerk
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cup and Rings
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3
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Panel is on Private land.
- Access is managed by a national organisation.
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
Human
- The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats
There is significant amount of moss on the rock.
