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Strath Sgitheach Balnacrae Lower

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Canmore ID 368657 SCRAP ID 3035
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 52768 64239 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 08/07/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Strath Sgitheach Balnacrae Lower Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 52768 64239
Lat/Long 57.64394 -4.46832
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.) SE

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
  • Enclosure
  • Ditch/Bank

B5. Location Notes

This panel lies in an area of rough grazing on a SE facing slope, 800m uphill from from the River Sgitheach. From the site you can see the Cromarty Firth and the N and S, Sutors to the E and Cioch Mhor to the NW. It lies equidistant (50m) from two water channels which run N to S. A fence line runs in an W to E direction approximately 150m upslope. It is situated 50m S of the cupmarked rock Balnacrae Upper, and 600m upslope from Strath Sgitheach farmstead where there is another cup marked rock at NH 53199 63812 (Canmore ID 12948, ScRAP ID 2115).

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) 1.6 Width 0.9
Height (max) 0.5 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 Not Visible
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Weathering Channels
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This panel is roughly rectangular with a rounded E edge and a flat upper surface. It measures 1.6 x0.9m and rises to a height of 0.5m above ground level. The upper surface is mainly smooth with a fissure at its E edge and a weathered channel on the W edge. It has 22 cup marks spaced in an even spread across the surface, avoiding the fissure where the rock begins to slope downwards.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
22

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
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.
  • There are other significant animal threats.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

Deer