Historic Enviroment Scotland logo
Scotland Rock Art logo
Login/Register
Search Database
My Folder

Rock Art Database

DRUIM MOR 5

View PDF
Canmore ID 368478 SCRAP ID 3029
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57720 66149 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 5
Other names Druimhor
HER/SMR SM Number Other Druim Mor DS05
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 57720 66149
Lat/Long 57.66267 -4.38657
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

This cup marked stone sits on an E facing undulating sloping spur between two straths. It faces towards the Cromarty Firth and the Sutors. It sits 110m E and downslope from a stone dyke and a post medieval farmstead lies 90m to the SE. It is part of the scheduled Drumore group of cup marked rocks.

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) 1.5 Width 1.1
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

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

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly oval shaped boulder measuring 1.53 x1.16m with the longest axis running on an E/W axis. The carved upper surface of the boulder is rough but flat with several fissures rising to a maximum of 0.17m. It has 27 cupmarks, of which 3 are larger, scattered over the surface.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
24 3

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

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

No comments added