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PENACHRIG BURN

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Canmore ID 370772 SCRAP ID 3579
Location OS Grid Ref: NS 70452 15669 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 23/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name PENACHRIG BURN Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Natural Feature Period 1 Period Unassigned
County
DUMFRIES-SHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NS 70452 15669
Lat/Long 55.41775 -4.04814
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • No selection
Other: St Conal's Cross

B5. Location Notes

The boulder is situated in rough grazing on a hillside facing S. It is 160m S of an enclosure surrounding St Conal's Cross (Canmore ID 45461) and 75m SW of Penachrig Burn. There is an area of open cast mining around 600m to the SW.

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) 1.3 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.9 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SE Carved Surface SE Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Other
Other: white pebbles 		Rock Type Conglomerate

C4. Surface Features

  • Natural Hollows
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

This conglomerate boulder measures 1.3 x 0.8m and is triangular in plan with almost vertical surfaces to the SE, SW and N. The carved surface faces SE. There are several circular hollows on the top and SE side of the boulder, most of which are probably natural but at least one looks like a cupmark. The adjacent small boulder has no possible cupmarks.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

None of the cupmark hollows look definite on the 3D model. One is probable while the rest look natural.

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
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

  • This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel Yes

D3. Risk

Natural
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
  • Water will pool deeply on parts of the surface.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • There are quarries nearby.
Comments and other potential threats

There is open cast mining nearby but it is unlikely to come in this direction.