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BUTE, SOUTH LENIHULINE WOOD

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Canmore ID 304521 SCRAP ID 2221
Location OS Grid Ref: NS 00357 69107 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 25/06/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name BUTE, SOUTH LENIHULINE WOOD Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
BUTESHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NS 00349 69123
New OS NGR NS 00357 69107
Lat/Long 55.87364 -5.19274
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sunny
Position in landscape
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Sloping
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) SSW

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

The panel is a large boulder located in the SE corner of South Lenihuline Wood SE of a burn gully. It can be reached via a footpath a short distance to the SW. This footpath leads downhill towards the track running NW along the shore from the parking area at Glecknabae to Kilmichael. The Carnbaan chambered cairn lies 320 m to the NE of the panel.

Previous Notes

This large cup-marked boulder is situated close to the SE end of South Lenihuline Wood, immediately SE of a burn gully and 320m SW of the Carnbaan chambered cairn (NS06NW 7). Two cups on the flat, moss-grown, upper surface of the boulder measure up to 60mm in diameter and 15mm in depth. Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, GB) 1 April 2009.

NS06NW 117 00349 69123 This large cup-marked boulder is situated close to the SE end of South Lenihuline Wood, immediately SE of a burn gully and 320m SW of the Carnbaan chambered cairn (NS06NW 7). Two cups on the flat, moss-grown, upper surface of the boulder measure up to 60mm in diameter and 15mm in depth. Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, GB) 1 April 2009.

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) 1.7 Width 1.6
Height (max) 1.1 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface Carved Surface Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Not Visible
Other: None 		Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks

C5. Panel Notes

This is a fairly large medium grained schist type boulder measuring 1.7m x 1.6m with a maximum height of 1.1m. There are 2 cupmarks on the flat moss covered upper surface, measuring up to 60 mm in diameter and 15 mm in depth. Some fissures/cracks are visible but no tool marks can be found.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

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C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
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

  • Panel was known before the project.
  • 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.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added