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DRUIM MOR 4

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Canmore ID 368477 SCRAP ID 3047
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57700 66151 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 4
Other names Druimhor
HER/SMR SM Number Other Druim Mor DS04
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 57700 66151
Lat/Long 57.66268 -4.3869
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
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 panel is situated on an E facing undulating sloping spur between two straths, looking out over the Cromarty Firth towards the Sutors. It is in rough pasture 100m E and downslope of a stone dyke and is part of the Drumore group of Scheduled cup marked rocks (SM 4945). A post medieval farmstead (Canmore ID: 12882) overlies the area 100m to the SE, with a ruined chambered cairn (Canmore ID: 12889) beyond this.

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) 1 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Not Sure
 Rock Type Gneiss

C4. Surface Features

  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a roughly rectangular stone measuring 1.05 x 0.80 m with its longest axis running NE to SW. Its S edge curves and the surface is rough, and level apart from a small raised area at its W edge. There is 1 cupmark in the centre of the panel and three depressions that could be mistaken for cupmarks, one on the W edge and two others on the S edge. The panel rises to a maximum height of 0.15m above ground level.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

1 definite cupmark and three depressions easily mistaken for cupmarks.

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
1 3

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

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