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| Canmore ID |
39558 |
SCRAP ID |
1973 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NR 86350 94520
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| SCRAPER (TOOL) |
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| CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
18/07/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
TORBHLARAN |
Number |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NR |
86350 |
94520 |
| New OS NGR |
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| Lat/Long |
56.09555 |
-5.43638 |
| Obtained By: |
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
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| Position in landscape |
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| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
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| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
This record records both the discovery of three small flint scrapers and a cup and ring mark rock. As a part of the Scotland's Rock Art project, this record has been allocated solely to the scrapers, and a separate record has been created for the cup and ring mark rock (see Torbhlaran 3).
Previous Notes
NR89SE 5 8635 9452.
(NR 863 945) A hog-backed rock outcrop 60 yds NW of standing stone NR89SE 3, and 80 yds NW of gate in road wall of field is sculptured with c.7 cups and up to 4 rings, and c.12 cups. To SW, on a fractured erect slab, 2 small cups. Three small flint scrapers found in the field here, are now in the possession of B Thomson at Torbhlaren.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; R W B Morris and B Thomson 1969
NR 8635 9451: The cup and ring marks on the outcrop are indistinct, but generally as described. No other cup marks were located in the area. Mr Thomson has now moved to Canada.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 7 May 1973
NR 8635 9452. Only 10 cups and two cup-and-ring marks could be identified on this weathered rock outcrop. The fractured slab could not be identified.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 17 March 1977
Situated in an arable field 190 m N of Glenalva Cottage and 50m NW of the standing stone (NR89SE 12), there is an isolated spine of rock with its long axis aligned NE and SW. The NE end of the spine is bifurcated, and on the E spur there are three cups with single rings, one cup with four rings (300mm overall) and three plain cups, while on the W spur there is one cup and single ring In a hollow to the W of the middle of the spine there are faint traces of a cup and single ring and at least three plain cups (Campbell and Sandeman 1964; Morris 1969).
Visited May 1983
RCAHMS 1988
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
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Width |
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| Height (max) |
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Height (min) |
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Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
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Grain Size |
No selection
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
No selection
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C4. Surface Features
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
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
