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DRUIM MOR 26

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Canmore ID 368475 SCRAP ID 3064
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57713 66105 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 20/08/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 26
Other names Drumore DS26
HER/SMR SM Number Other
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
New OS NGR NH 57713 66105
Lat/Long 57.66227 -4.38666
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Cloudy
Position in landscape Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Sloping
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SE

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Burial Mound/Cairn
  • Enclosure

B5. Location Notes

This panel is found close to the top of SE facing slope, and has extensive views of Swordale, the Cromarty Firth and the Black Isle. It is one of a group of 23 panels in a scheduled area SM4945, the outline of which used to be fenced and is still visible. This panel, Druim Mor 26, is located to the W edge of a group of panels in the S half of the scheduled area. It can be found approximately 25m to the E of the W edge of the SM area and 75m to the NW of the S point. It is also just over 100m to the WSW of the W end of the footing of a ruined building.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 1.8 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min)
Approximate slope of carved surface
6 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface WSW Carved Surface WSW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Very Coarse Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This panel is approximately 180cm in length, on an E/W alignment, and 80cm in width, on a N/S alignment. It has been carved with two well formed cups; the largest of which measures 70mm in diameter and is up to 30mm deep, the second of which is 55mm in diameter and up to 20mm deep.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

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C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_7
2

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
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added