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WHITEHILL 6

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Canmore ID 44517 SCRAP ID 2139
Location OS Grid Ref: NS 51171 73862 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 23/03/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name WHITEHILL Number 6
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
DUNBARTONSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NS 51150 73860
New OS NGR NS 51171 73862
Lat/Long 55.9347 -4.38405
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sun and light shower
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.) S

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel is situated on a raised terrace on the S facing hillside on the edge of a steep bank in young deciduous woodland about 6m above a drainage ditch. The outcrop is flattish and flush with the ground, forming part of a larger sandstone outcrop with evidence of extensive quarrying. A small quarry hollow lies 4m to the E and the public path to Cochno Road lies about 20m to the E. The panel is located 4m directly above a 5-6m long narrow horizontal shaft penetrating into the hillside. Other carved panels at Whitehill 1 and 2 lie about 50m NE.

Previous Notes

NS57SW 16 5115 7386 See also NS57SW 6, 7, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 42, 45, 48 and 70. At NS 5115 7386 is a cup and ring marked rock (information from J G Scott, Kelvingrove Museum), partially covered with moss and heather, so that the whole surface could not be examined. There is a cup with 4 concentric circles 0.3m diameter, and another, a cup with two concentric circles, measuring 0.2m diameter, the two ring marks almost abutting each other. The markings are very much weathered. Visited by OS (W M J) 28 June 1951. These cup and ring marks are as described above. The rock also bears at least 3 other single cups. Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (R D) 24 August 1966.

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) 3.2 Width 2.9
Height (max) 4.9 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees 0 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface 0 Carved Surface 0 Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Friable Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Not Visible
 Rock Type Sandstone

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is roughly square and flat with wide fissures forming an X shape across the surface. At the centre of the X is a roughly square hole about 6cm , possibly an enhanced natural feature for quarrying or a fence post? The rock surface has numerous fine fissures and pittings. On the E side of the panel are 2 eroded cup and ring motifs, one cup with 4 rings and a possible raidal, and adjacent to this is a cup with 2 rings. There are also 2 cups, one with a short groove, and a third possible cup. There are some incised initials on the W side of the panel.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

One additional possible cupmark

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_5
1 1
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_2
1
Radial
radial_1
1
Other carvings and motifs
other_motif_4
1

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
  • Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
  • There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.
  • There are trees nearby whose roots might disturb the rock.
Animal
Human
  • There is graffiti (paintings and/or carving) on or near the rock.
  • There are quarries nearby.
  • The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats

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