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| Canmore ID |
12706 |
SCRAP ID |
1456 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 55184 43587
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED STONE |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
06/02/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
MONIACK CASTLE |
Number |
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| Other names |
"Miss Campbell's stone" |
| HER/SMR |
MHG3331
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SM Number |
SM932 |
Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
55200 |
43600 |
| New OS NGR |
NH |
55184 |
43587 |
| Lat/Long |
57.45938 |
-4.41558 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
- Moved from original location
- In private collection
- Provenance unknown
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny
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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
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
The panel was re-discovered under the lawn immediately to the E of the last upright stone at the end of the rockery, which is at the left side end of the drive in front of the entrance to Moniack Castle. It has been moved about 3m W into the rockery, and is set upright in a safe and visible position at NH 55184 43587.
Previous Notes
NH54SE 10 552 436.
(Area NH 552 436) There is a cup-marked stone in the rockery at Moniack Castle, It stands at the end of the rockery next to the entrance gate, and is an erect block of hard grey gneiss, 2' x2' with at least 19 well formed cups, the largest being 5" across. It is on loan to Miss Campbell of Moniack Castle, and came from an old dike, which is the march between the farm of Mr. Yule of Maryburgh, near Dingwall,and Bakerhill of Brahan (Information from Seaforth to Rev Dr. Joass, Golspie: June 1880)
W Jolly 1882
No trace of this stone could be found.
Visited by OS (R D) 21 December 1964
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) |
0.6 |
Width |
0.6 |
| Height (max) |
0.4 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Gneiss
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C4. Surface Features
Other: drill holes used for explosives
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is a block of gneiss, 0.65m x 0.60m x 0.35m at thickest. It has been broken from a larger piece and there are two drill holes. There are 19 cupmarks in total, 2 in particular are larger and deeper than the others. The carved surface is approximately flat, and at one unbroken corner the surface slopes away and 1 cup is on a surface at an angle to the rest.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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17
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2
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. 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
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
After re-discovery the rock was re-located to a safe position in the rockery
