Rock Art Database

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Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Classifications And Periods

County

PERTHSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

B2. Current land use & vegetation

• Rough Grazing
• Wood/Forest

Other:On the wooded riverbank on edge of 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 sited in rough grazing at the top of the N bank of the River Lochay, at the S edge of the flat valley floor, which consists of improved pasture. It lies immediately outside (S of) a modern deer fence, its N edge extending slightly under the fence. To the SSW the ground slopes steeply to the river approximately 5m away. The field was not accessed due to the presence of sheep and lambs. Although there is nothing to indicate that the panel has been moved, it has a 40mm square iron fence post inserted into it (0.6m S of the present fence line) and it is possible that its present location dates to the construction of the earlier fence. The view to the N is across the valley floor to the mountains on the N side of Glen Lochay; to the W the view upriver is obscured by trees along the river bank; to the S, across the river are low wooded hills, and to the E there is a partial view down the wooded valley. Other rock art panels are widely distributed along the valley sides and floor of Glen Lochay, but there are none recorded (nor any other archaeological sites) within 200m of the panel, which lies approximately 300m SE of the outcrop carrying Duncroisk Lower panels 1-9, which is visible from this panel.

Previous Notes

NN53NW 5 5345 3568. A loose slab of stone, with eighteen cup marks, five ringed, was shown to the author, used as a foundation stone for a stretching post at the S end of the easternmost fence of Duncroisk farm. It is near the edge of the river buried in sand and turf. C G Cash 1912 NN 5345 3568. A flat, half-buried slab with a metal fence post in its middle and bearing fourteen cup marks, four of which are ringed (R W B Morris TS, 1975). Surveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (BS) 9 September 1975 NN 534 356 This stone, which has been used for the foundation of a fence post, bears cup-marks and cup-and-ring marks. RCAHMS 1979; C G Cash 1912

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

C3. Rock Surface

C4. Surface Features

• Fissures/cracks
• Bedding Planes
• Rough surface
• Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is an irregular shaped slab, 0.9m E-W x 1m N-S and 0.2m high at the SW. It has a near vertical flat face to the SW, and near vertical sides to the S. The other sides are steep to the W and moderately steep to the NE. The N edge lies below the fence line and was not fully exposed. It has a slightly domed surface, being near flat at the W and sloping up to 30 degrees on the NE side. It consists of a hard, medium grained Schist, with faint evidence of bedding planes, a few cracks and slightly rough surface. The N side of the panel is covered by turf on river silt, but the S edge is exposed. There is a 40mm square iron fence post inserted into it near its centre. The decoration includes 25 plain cupmarks, 10 of which are small and shallow (c.20mm diameter and no more than 5mm deep) which are clustered along the N edge of the panel; there may be others where the panel extends under the fence). The other 15 plain cupmarks were all significantly larger: 30-70mm in diameter and up to 30mm deep. Most of these are on the E half of the panel, but the largest lies close to the W corner. Four other cup marks, running in a NNW-SSE line close to the NE edge, have complete or partial rings. The northern two have radial lines pointing roughly westwards. In the northern one the ring (140mm diameter) appears to cut cross the radial line; while in the adjacent one the ring stops short of the radial line on its N side. The next one has a complete ring, while most southerly has only an arc on the W side; this has a slightly bulbous N end. There is a E-W groove running towards the SE corner.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

• Right to Roam access.

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 amounts of water are likely to flow over the carved surface.

Animal

• There are sheep near the rock.

Human

• The rock is within or on the edge of arable land.

Comments and other potential threats

The slab is threatened by regular flooding and often covered by river silt and debris.