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| Canmore ID |
368716 |
SCRAP ID |
3209 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 39879 57196
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
05/04/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
WEST COMRIE |
Number |
5 |
| Other names |
Scatwell, Am Fireach, |
| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
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| New OS NGR |
NH |
39879 |
57196 |
| Lat/Long |
57.57635 |
-4.67934 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny Intervals
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| Position in landscape |
Top of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
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| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
S |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
- Ploughed
- Mounded
- New Plantation
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
This panel is on the summit of a S facing spur at an altitude of 180m; the spur is part of the upper lip of a steep slope which runs down to the river Conon. There are wide views to the S and over Strathconon with the junction of the Rivers Conon and Meig below. The panel is in an area of newly planted forest, with areas of more mature forest to the north where the ground eases. Just 2m to the S is a further cup marked rock (West Comrie 3).
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.4 |
Width |
1 |
| Height (max) |
0.7 |
Height (min) |
0.2 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
W |
Carved Surface |
S |
C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Rough surface
- Smooth Surface
C5. Panel Notes
This panel is a large boulder with multiple surfaces measuring 1.4x1m in size and up to 0.7m in height. On the upper surface there is 1 possible cup and 3 depressions that may be natural features (carved surface A). On the S tip of the rock, facing S on a almost vertical surface, there is a further large circular depression 8cms in diameter, which is also probably natural.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Possible
Comments
And 3 possible cups
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
D2. Awareness
- Panel was known before the project.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
When the trees nearby grow to maturity they will overwhelm the panel but they are sufficiently far away that the roots will not harm it. However harvesting operations may affect it.
