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DRUIM MOR 14

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Canmore ID 368465 SCRAP ID 3143
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57786 66177 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 01/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 14
Other names Swordale, Drumore Farm
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 57786 66177
Lat/Long 57.66294 -4.38548
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

The stone is located c50m S of a deer fence on the top of a broad ridge between Strath Sgitheach and Strath Glass. The ridge runs E-W and slopes towards the E overlooking the Cromarty Firth. It is within an area approximately 200m x 100m containing around 27 other decorated stones. An old trackway runs up the ridge. The overall site was previously surveyed by Dougie Scott and Bob Gourlay in 1986 & 2001 (see Canmore entries for Druim Mor). This panel is located c 11m to the E of the panel recorded as Druim Mor 13.

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) 0.8 Width 0.7
Height (max) 0 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface Flat Carved Surface Carved Surface Flat

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly square shaped panel, 0.8 x 0.7m in size, which lies flat with the surface of the ground. There is one distinct crack on the W side of the panel. Four cup marks have been carved into the rock surface, one of which is possible.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
4

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
  • No selection
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added