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| Canmore ID |
285783 |
SCRAP ID |
2404 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 99969 25964
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
02/04/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
LAGGAN HILL |
Number |
2 |
| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup And Ring Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
MORAYSHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
99969 |
25964 |
| New OS NGR |
NH |
99969 |
25964 |
| Lat/Long |
57.31324 |
-3.66232 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny Intervals
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| Position in landscape |
Hillside |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Sloping |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SSE |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
The panel is situated towards the top of a SE facing slope, overlooking the Spey Valley and Cairngorm beyond. It is immediately below an area which has been quarried for limestone. Laggan Hill 3 is 12m to the SW and is part of the same geological outcrop.
Previous Notes
NH92NE 4.02 99969 25964
This large outcrop of grey and pink mica schist is situated in an area of improved pasture and quarrying 440m SE of the remains of Coldhome farmsteading (NH92NE 40). It can be equated with the boulder noted as `A' on the Ordnance Survey Record Card. Its sloping SW face, which measures 8m from NW to SE by 4.2m transversely bears at least 20 cups, the largest 85mm in diameter and 40mm in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (AG), 12 October 2006.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
7.4 |
Width |
4.8 |
| Height (max) |
0.2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
SE |
Carved Surface |
SE |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
Quartz Veins
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Rough surface
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is in 3 sections, all part of an outcrop of a coarse pink biotite gneiss, lying at or just under a gently sloping surface. It extends over an area of 7.4x4.8m.
Section 1, at the S and the largest, has 38 cups, 2 larger cups, and a large elongated cup at the centre. Towards its S end, a curving groove partly encircles a large cup and 3 smaller ones. There is a large cup at the N edge. Section 2, smaller and to the W, has 9 cups and one larger one at its NW edge. Section 3, to the NE, has 4 cups and one large and deep one at its N edge. The rock here is particularly uneven and there are many indentations which may be natural.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
Note: I have shown the elongated cup as a large cup below, so 4 large plus one elongated = 5 large
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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51
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5
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Groove
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
D2. Awareness
- Panel was known before the project.
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.
- There are cattle near the rock.
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
