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BALMACNAUGHTON 3

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Canmore ID 370669 SCRAP ID 3388
Location OS Grid Ref: NN 77298 43636 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 25/09/2020 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name BALMACNAUGHTON Number 3
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
PERTHSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NN 77298 43636
Lat/Long 56.56858 -3.99851
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

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.) Sloping
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) W

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Settlement
  • Clearance cairn(s)

B5. Location Notes

The panel is located in rough grazing on the NW sloping edge of a rocky knoll on the W facing hillside above Balmacnaughton Farm, overlooking Loch Tay with the Ben Lawers and Glen Lyon hills and Schiehallion visible to the W and N. The bedrock on top of the knoll is extensively carved, with five additional exposed areas of rock (Balmacnaughton 1-2 and 4-6), extending over a length of about 15m. This panel is about 1m S of the largest of these, Balmacnaughton 2. These panels collectively feature cups, cups and rings and other motifs, all previously grouped together under Canmore 25013, ScRAP 1671. The N-S running stone wall and deer fence to mature pine woodland lies 4m to the NE of the panel. On the slopes below and to the W of the panel there are the remains of numerous stone dykes, field clearance cairns, and structures. The area has been extensively quarried and re-located in structures. The rock to the S noted by Naddir in 1992 is not an additional panel but part of the six sections of outcrop mentioned the existing Canmore description, and recorded by ScRAP as Balmacnaughton 1-6.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 1.9 Width 0.9
Height (max) 0 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface NW Carved Surface NW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Very Coarse Visible Anomalies Other
Other: Feldspar speckles 		Rock Type Metamorphosed gabbro

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

This area of exposed outcrop measures about 1.9 x 0.9m and is flush with the ground. It lies between the Balmacnaughton 2 and 4 panels, and is of the same coarse, metamorphic rock type as all the others in this locally grouping. The majority of the motifs are clustered over the S end of the panel. There is 1 cup with single ring (outer/inner diam. 12/8cm, ring 4.5x1cm). Between this and the SW corner of the panel is an arc of 3 prominent cupmarks (all about 6-7x2cm) with another 5 similar sized cupmarks scattered in this area (-5x-1cm) and 2 larger (7x<2cm) cupmarks, one to the E of the ring with the other towards the centre of the panel. there is also another isolated cup towards the N edge (6x1cm). There are also 2 oval shaped or elongated cupmarks near the line of a crack close to the edge of the panel. The S-most is 10x6x<2cm and the one to the N is 7x5x1cm. There is a further probable cupmark on the crack itself midway between the two oval cups.

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
5 6
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1
1
Groove
groove_8
2

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 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