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UPPER LARGIE

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Canmore ID 171309 SCRAP ID 1865
Location OS Grid Ref: NR 83690 98890 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 17/04/2020 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name UPPER LARGIE Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ARGYLL

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NR 83690 98890
New OS NGR
Lat/Long 56.13355 -5.4826
Obtained By:

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Not located in the field
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

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

  • No selection

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel was searched for during the Kilmartin Field School, July 2018, but was not located. The bracken and vegetation was very high at this time of year and may have been obscuring the panel.

Previous Notes

NR89NW 140 8369 9889 (Location cited as NR 8369 9889). Kilmartin 3. A boulder approx 1m x 1m, situated close to natural springs and a modern fieldgate. The motifs consist of 20 + cups of various sizes linked by natural grooves, first published Beckensall 1999. Information from S Beckensall, B Brown and P Brown, located May 1999. S Beckensall 1999; NMRS, MS/669/9.

Section C. PANEL

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
degrees degrees
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

  • No selection

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

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • No selection

D2. Awareness

  • No selection
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added