View PDF
| Canmore ID |
|
SCRAP ID |
1719 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 7843 0008
|
Team |
Not in team
|
|
Existing Classifications
|
| Classification |
Period |
| Cup Marked Rock |
|
|
| Date Fieldwork Started |
|
Date Fieldwork Completed |
|
| New Panel? |
No |
|
A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
Invertromie |
Number |
|
| Other names |
|
| HER/SMR |
MHG25021
|
SM Number |
|
Other |
|
County
No County recorded
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
78430 |
00080 |
| New OS NGR |
NH |
7843 |
0008 |
| Lat/Long |
57.07563 |
-4.00703 |
| Obtained By: |
|
A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
|
| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
|
| Position in landscape |
|
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
|
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
|
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
No notes added
Previous Notes
The cup-marks are located on the upper surface of a large outcrop of rock, which rises, like a whaleback, from the flat haugh-land of the River Tromie. The rock is approximately 8 metres long (north/south) by 5 metres wide and stands about 1 metre above ground level at the highest point. The main surface slopes gently toward the west and the south, with the northern and eastern slopes being steeper (similar to a Roche Moutonne) but it is unclear whether this is bedrock or a large erratic. The stone is a hard metamorphic, with beautiful lines of quartzite, and the cup-marks are well preserved.
Approximately 80% of the rock's surface is covered with a mat of turf. 9 cup-marks were visible at the northern end, but by lifting a small area of turf adjacent 18 more were exposed. Close examination of the southern end revealed 3 cup-marks. No attempt was made to lift the turf between, which has considerable potential for further discoveries.
(Graham Robbins, Community Archaeologist, visit 11/01/2000) <1><2>
At the same time a structure was noticed abutting the eastern side of the outcrop bearing the cup-marks. It is a stone built, semi-circle, open toward the east, surviving about 3 to 4 courses high. It is possible that this is a corn-drying kiln, though much overgrown (see MHG44691).
A photograph of this cup marked stone was submitted to the HER by Douglas Scott in April 2011. <1>
<1> Highland Council Archaeology Unit, HCAU Slide Collection: images 5777 to 14371, Slides 6793 - 6803 (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG25189.
<2> Scott, D, 2010-11, Photographs and information from Douglas Scott (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG25031.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
|
Width |
|
| Height (max) |
|
Height (min) |
|
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
|
Carved Surface |
|
Carved Surface |
|
C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
|
Grain Size |
No selection
|
Visible Anomalies |
No selection
|
Rock Type |
No selection
|
C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
No notes added
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
not mentioned
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
