Rock Art Database

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Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Classifications And Periods

County

MORAYSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

B2. Current land use & vegetation

• No selection

Other:Farm Barnyard

B3. Forestry

• No selection

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

• Other rock art
• Stone Circle

B5. Location Notes

This boulder is to be found on a slightly raised bank, inside a fenced area, on the public road to Corskellie Farm. The fenced area encloses a large farm building which is used for storage and cattle. Three other boulders are present on the bank, but none of them have any rock art. The location overlooks the River Deveron and N to the Milltown of Rothiemay and the location of the Rothiemay Recumbent Stone Circle.

Previous Notes

NJ54NE 33 5586 4751 (Location cited as NJ 558 475). In 1990, Mr Robertson, Corskellie, when clearing ground for a new farm building, turned over a large boulder with many cup-marks on its lower face. It had been set up on a bank with other unmarked boulders, between the public road and the new building, close to where it was found. The stone is wedge-shaped, 1.1m thick at the top, 0.15m at the bottom, and measures 1.9m by 2.7m across the widest and longest parts of the carved face. There are at least 56 cup-marks, ranging from 5cm to 19cm in diameter. About a quarter (mostly on one half of the stone) have a tail between the cup and the ring, and many of the cups in this half are symmetrically deeper at one side, with small weathered grooves on the opposite side. Three parallel narrow veins of quartzite cross the cup-marked face. A Miles 1993. Located by Grampian Regional Council at NJ 5586 4751. It was found in agricultural ground on a NW-facing slope. NMRS, MS/712/10.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

C3. Rock Surface

C4. Surface Features

• Fissures/cracks
• Natural Hollows
• Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This large, roughly rectangular boulder measures 2.5 x 2.0 m and 1m at its maximum height. It has three quartz veins running across its top surface; two of them are parallel in a N-S direction. The third, shorter one is at right angles to the other two and runs from the W side of the surface until it meets a N-S vein. At the N end there is a long, narrow U-shaped groove, which appears natural. A total of about 60 carved motifs features were identified, including about 32 cupmarks, the two largest being 20cm x 4.5cm and 19cm x 3.5cm and situated at the S end of the panel. There are also 2 courgette motifs, 8 cups with single penannulars and radials, one cup with two penannulars and a radial, one cup with extended ring terminus and a radial, and a cup with two penannulars, the inner one having extended ring terminus. Several of the motifs have conjoined rings, and some form alignments.

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

• Panel is on Private land.

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.
• Water will pool deeply on parts of the surface.
• Large amounts of water are likely to flow over the carved surface.

Animal

• There are cattle near the rock.

Human

• The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
• This panel has been estimated to be seriously at risk of being damaged or destroyed.

Comments and other potential threats

There is a very large barn 12m to to E of the stone which is used to house cattle. The stone is elevated on a bank inside the fence, so would not be easily brushed against by animals being moved.