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| Canmore ID |
5356 |
SCRAP ID |
2061 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NC 56200 52710
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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 |
17/10/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
KINLOCH LODGE |
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 |
56190 |
52710 |
| New OS NGR |
NC |
56200 |
52710 |
| Lat/Long |
58.43895 |
-4.46497 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny
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| Position in landscape |
Hillside |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Undulating |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
Other: roughly carved stone
B5. Location Notes
The panel is situated 2m from the edge of the road, at the N end of a small disused quarry which contains birch trees and is partly flooded. The area around is boggy moorland, and the panel is on a slight spur, sloping gently to the SW, and with views to the W over the inner end of the Kyle of Tongue. Ben Loyal (765m) is visible about 4km to the S. A slab of similar size lies about 35m NNE of the panel, and has a number of straight incisions on it.
Previous Notes
NC55SE 2 5619 5271
(NC 5619 5271) Cup-marked Stone (NR)
OS 6" map (1961)
A large, earth-fast boulder 5ft long as far as is exposed and 3ft 10ins broad, bearing on the upper surface 18 cup marks of various depths of which the most distinct, 3ins in diameter and 1in deep, is towards the N. The whole length of the stone is not visible but the markings do not seem to extend to the covered portion.
H Morrison 1883; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
A cup-marked rock, as described by the RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (JLD), 22 April 1960
No change to the RCAHMS report.
Visited by OS (JM), 11 October 1978
NC 56206 52697. Cup marked stone surveyed as part of survey in the Lochan Hakel area carried out by students from University of Aberdeen in July 2006.
J Kirby, D Marquardt, H MacFarlane and S Duthie, 21 April 2007
NMRS, MS/2999.
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) |
1.7 |
Width |
1.1 |
| Height (max) |
0.3 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
NW |
Carved Surface |
NW |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Gneiss
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is a smoothly rounded boulder of gneiss measuring 1.7 x 1.1m with a flat upper face sloping to the NW, set into the ground and with the N end disappearing into the bank. Along the E edge are 16 distinct cups and 3 other possible cups. The latter have rough outlines and may have been damaged. There is a distinct groove which runs approximately N-S, and cuts through three of the cups. There are about 8 small but distinct marks in a group on the W edge of the rock.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
16 definite cups, plus 3 possible, which appear to have been damaged, and one straight groove which is at an angle to the faint natural grooves in the rock.
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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19
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Groove
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
- Panel was known before the project.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
- Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
- There are trees nearby whose roots might disturb the rock.
Animal
Human
- There are quarries nearby.
- The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats
At the roadside, about 2m from the tarmac of a minor road. It is also on the edge of a small disused quarry. 3 of the cups show signs of possible damage in the past.
