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DUNAMUCK 4

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Canmore ID 171304 SCRAP ID 2449
Location OS Grid Ref: NR 84426 91756 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 15/07/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DUNAMUCK Number 4
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ARGYLL

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NR 84450 91760
New OS NGR NR 84426 91756
Lat/Long 56.0699 -5.46502
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 Top of hill
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.)

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

Dunamuck 4 is located in undulating terrain at the top of an outcrop in a field of rough grazing about 10m E of a fence line, with Dunamuck Farmhouse 300m to the NW and a small white house 50m to the NE. A larger, quarried outcrop without carvings can be seen about 15m to the SW of the panel, which is largely covered over by moss and turf. Just E of the panel, a track runs Northwards towards the white house and through a gate 80m away on the S side of the field.

Previous Notes

NR89SW 70 8445 9176 (Location cited as NR 8445 9176). Dunamuck 4. The site is accessed from Dunamuck 5 [NR89SW 71] by crossing the stream and passing through a gate in a modern field wall. The ground levels at this point for some metres, and the crest gently slopes to the right to three domed outcrops, the centre of which is marked with field clearance stones. The carvings lie beneath the surface turf on the first outcrop. On the south facing edge of a domed outcrop, under turf, the carvings consist of a single cup surrounded by three rings with an integrated single isolated cup cut within the outer ring. Six cups with single rings forming an arc, similar to the carvings at Todd Crags, Northumberland (NY 9720 8913). Other motifs include a single cup and ring with radial grooves aligned to a natural crevice in the surface of the rock, twenty-one cupmarks, one countersunk This site, together with Dunamuck 6, merit more detailed investigation, possibly by the complete removal of the turf covering. Other cups are noted to the edge of the outcrop, but not recorded in the enclosed drawing. The surface of the rock has a vertical strike and many natural cracks on its surface have been incorporated within the design. The motifs are recorded using wax rubbing, digital and slide photography. Information from S Beckensall, B Brown and P Brown, visited May 2000. NMRS, MS/669/9.

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) 3.1 Width 2.1
Height (max) 0.3 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees 0 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
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows

C5. Panel Notes

Dunamuck 4 is a large, flat (3.1x2.1m and 0.3m high) schist outcrop. The carved surface is flat and has several fissures and cracks, as well as natural hollows. There are 23 motifs in total: 12 small cup marks, 1 double cup mark, 2 large cup marks, 6 cup and single rings (some of these appear to be arranged in an arc), 1 cup with 2 rings and 1 cup with 3 rings and a smaller cup and ring attached to it.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_3 cupmark_7
12 1 2
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1 cup_and_ring_2
6 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

  • 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 other significant animal threats.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added