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STIRLING, KING'S PARK

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Canmore ID 46180 SCRAP ID 1812
Location OS Grid Ref: NS 78372 92993 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 09/10/2020 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name STIRLING, KING'S PARK Number
Other names Duplicate of King's Park (HER 784, ScRAP 2613)
HER/SMR SM Number SM2540 Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
Classification 2 Period 2 Prehistoric
County
STIRLINGSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NS 78300 93000
New OS NGR NS 78372 92993
Lat/Long 56.11414 -3.95761
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Wood/Forest
  • Route way
Other:Golf Course rough ground

B3. Forestry

  • New Plantation

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

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel is situated in woodland lying flat on level ground at the top of an escarpment that slopes steeply to the S. It is located 10m W of a memorial bench and 7m N of tarmac track which runs to the S of Kings Park Golf Course. Previous descriptions describe the stone as being 45m from a bench so it appears that a new bench has been put in place. The location (if the surrounding trees were removed) would have panoramic views to the crag and tail of Stirling Castle and the Ochil Hills to the NE, towards the Ben Ledi and the Trossachs to the W, and across the escarpment to the Gargunnock Hills to the SW. NS79SE 16 783 930. (NS 783 930) There is a cup and ring mark on a small, flat, ground level outcrop of rock near the crest of the steep craggy slope along the SW side of the King's Park. It is 45 yds E of a seat which is NNW of Douglas Terrace. On the flat rock surface, whick measures 2'6" x 1'6", is a cup, 1 1/2" in diameter and 1/2" deep, surrounded by a ring 5" in diameter, and another ring 9" in diameter, now much weathered. RCAHMS 1963, visited 1958 Morris notes a cup mark on either side of the mark described above. R W B Morris 1969 This cup and ring marked rock, which lies on a golf course, could not be located. Visited by OS (JP) 10 January 1974 NS 783 930 This rock outcrop bears three cup-marks, one of which has two concentric rings. RCAHMS 1979; RCAHMS 1963; R W B Morris 1969

Previous Notes

NS79SE 16 783 930. (NS 783 930) There is a cup and ring mark on a small, flat, ground level outcrop of rock near the crest of the steep craggy slope along the SW side of the King's Park. It is 45 yds E of a seat which is NNW of Douglas Terrace. On the flat rock surface, whick measures 2'6" x 1'6", is a cup, 1 1/2" in diameter and 1/2" deep, surrounded by a ring 5" in diameter, and another ring 9" in diameter, now much weathered. RCAHMS 1963, visited 1958 Morris notes a cup mark on either side of the mark described above. R W B Morris 1969 This cup and ring marked rock, which lies on a golf course, could not be located. Visited by OS (JP) 10 January 1974 NS 783 930 This rock outcrop bears three cup-marks, one of which has two concentric rings. RCAHMS 1979; RCAHMS 1963; R W B Morris 1969

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

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Fine Visible Anomalies Not Visible
 Rock Type Sandstone

C4. Surface Features

  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This is a small sandstone boulder measuring 1.0 x 0.7m flush with the ground and with a flat upper surface. It features 1 cup with 2 rings, the outer ring being very faint, and 2 cups each with faint single rings barely discernable in the field but visible on 3D imagery. There is a depression in the panel between the eastern-most and central motifs which may be natural.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
2
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1 cup_and_ring_2
2 1

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.
  • Panel is on Private land.

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
Human
  • The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats

The rock is 10M from a memorial bench. It is adjacent to a marked path that runs around King Park Golf Course. The cup and ring marked rock is mentioned in the historian Neil Oliver's book 'Wisdom of the Ancients - Life Lessons from our Distant Past' published 2020 who names a chapter after it. This may increase visits to this site.