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DALREOICH 1

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Canmore ID 368455 SCRAP ID 3016
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57974 76623 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 24/09/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DALREOICH Number 1
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 57974 76623
Lat/Long 57.75675 -4.3885
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sunny
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.) 0

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Improved Pasture

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Hut circle(s)

B5. Location Notes

The panel is in the bottom of the valley at the edge of the flat land where it begins to rise to the NE. It is near the NE corner of a field, in improved pasture, and near to a substantial stone built field drain. The land is open with clearance cairns and a few large boulders remaining. There is a second cup marked stone (Dalreoich 5) about 70m to the N in a private garden, and others (Dalreoich 2, 3 and 4) in the vicinity. There is evidence of Neolithic activity along the Strath, the nearest being two hut circles about 300m to the N.

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) 3.9 Width 3
Height (max) 2 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees 0 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface N Carved Surface N Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Other
Other: Garnets 		Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is an outcrop of garnet mica schist. The exposed area is roughly triangular, 3.9m in the longest dimension and 3.0m across. It rises about 2.0m above ground level at its highest point, where the main group of 6 cups is located on the narrow tip of the panel. The main carved surface slopes at about 10deg to the N and has at least 3 other less distinct cups. The is a single cup on a lower carved surface at the NW of the outcrop.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
10

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
  • No selection
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats

Other cup marked rocks in the vicinity have been broken or removed during field clearance