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DRUIM MOR 6

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Canmore ID 368479 SCRAP ID 3015
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57714 66161 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 20/08/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 6
Other names Druimmhor
HER/SMR SM Number Other Druim Mor DS06
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Natural Feature Period 1 Period Unassigned
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 57714 66161
Lat/Long 57.66277 -4.38668
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sunny Intervals
Position in landscape Top of hill
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) E

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

This rock is part of the Scheduled Drumore group of cup marked rocks. It sits on an E facing undulating spur between two straths looking towards the Cromarty Firth and the Sutors. The rock is 110m E of a stone dyke in rough pasture. A post medieval farmstead overlies the area and a chambered cairn lies approximately 200m to the E.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

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) 0.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
30 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface S Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Other
Other: mica 		Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Natural Hollows
  • Weathering Channels
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly triangular shaped boulder measuring 0.85 x 0.52ms and upstanding to 0.30m. There is 1 cup-shaped depression with a diameter of 4cm, which is almost certainly a natural feature, situated on the upper part of the rock immediately adjacent to the weathering channel.

C6. Probability

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

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

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

No comments added