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Canmore ID |
5619 |
SCRAP ID |
1977 |
Location OS Grid Ref: |
NC 63460 38370
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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Classification |
Period |
CUP MARKED STONE |
PREHISTORIC |
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Date Fieldwork Started |
05/12/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
Panel Name |
GRUMBEG |
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 Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
SUTHERLAND
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
OS NGR |
NC |
63460 |
38370 |
New OS NGR |
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Lat/Long |
58.31259 |
-4.33222 |
Obtained By: |
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
Located |
- Moved from original location
- In museum
- Surface find
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Museum/Collection |
Strathnaver Musuem, Bettyhill |
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
The panel is displayed in the Strathnaver Museum (Bettyhill) along with two other (not pre-historic) carved stones also removed from Grumbeg.
Previous Notes
NC63NW 31 6346 3837.
(NC 6346 3837) Cup-marked Stone (NR).
OS 6"map, (1964)
A cup-marked stone was found in the burial place of Grumbeg in September 1905. It was standing upright at the head of a grave and protruded 6ins above the ground. It is evidently a fragment of a larger slab and would appear to have been moved to its present position from elsewhere (Mackay 1906).
The stone of micaceous schist is triangular in shape, measuring 20ins by 18ins and 4ins thick, and bears three well-defined cup-marks about 3ins diameter and 1ins deep, and another less well defined marking towards the base (RCAHMS 1911).
The stone was located in 1961, and was laid face down in the graveyard in 1971 (Information from Ms notes of A S Henshall, 11 August 1971).
A Mackay 1906; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited bu OS (W D J) 13 May 1961.
According to Mr MacLennan (Shepherd, Grumbeg, Strathnaver) this cup-marked stone was removed "some years ago" and placed in the museum at Bettyhill.
Visited by OS (N K B) 27 April 1977.
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) |
0.5 |
Width |
0.5 |
Height (max) |
0.1 |
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 |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Fine
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is flat slab of grey mica schist, 0.55m x 0.48m x 0.09m thick. It has four well formed cups, one shallower than the other three. Two of the deeper cups are near to the edge of the stone and part of the rock between each cup and the edge appears to have been broken away.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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4
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. 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
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added