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LAGGAN HILL 1

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Canmore ID 285787 SCRAP ID 2155
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 99860 25856 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 02/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name LAGGAN HILL Number 1
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
MORAYSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 99860 25856
New OS NGR NH 99860 25856
Lat/Long 57.31224 -3.66409
Obtained By: GPS

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Improved Pasture

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel is at the top of a flat-topped N-S ridge which slopes gently to the S. It is about 21m E of a wall and fence which runs along the top of the ridge. There are long distance views to the W but the main aspect is to the SE over Strath Spey and to the Grampians beyond. A disused limestone quarry is 100m+ to the N along the ridge.

Previous Notes

NH92NE 4.06 99860 25856 This grey and pink mica schist boulder is situated in rough pasture 140m SW of the pair of cupmarked outcrops NH92NE 4.02 & 4.03. It can be equated with the boulder noted as 'A' on the Ordnance Survey Record Card. Its flat upper surface, which is flush with the ground bears at least 20 cupmarks ranging in size from 45mm in diameter and 5mm in depth to 70mm by 30mm. Visited by RCAHMS (AG), 12 October 2006

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 1.5 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface 0 Carved Surface 0 Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Gneiss

C4. Surface Features

  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a rectangular slab of pinkish biotite gneiss 1.5m x 0.8m lying flat in the ground. There are 23 cups distributed over the N two thirds of the surface. Although this is not obviously an outcrop, the rock type is identical to that of nearby Laggan Hill 2, which is.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
23

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
  • There are quarries nearby.
Comments and other potential threats

The meta-limestone quarry nearby is now disused.