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Tiree, Creag an Sgalaig 2

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Canmore ID 368701 SCRAP ID 3189
Location OS Grid Ref: NL 99267 45815 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 30/05/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Tiree, Creag an Sgalaig Number 2
Other names NT 008
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ARGYLL

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NL 99267 45815
Lat/Long 56.50794 -6.88998
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 Hillside
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Flat
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
  • Field System
  • Ditch/Bank

B5. Location Notes

The panel, a low but upstanding outcrop, lies in a large field of rough grazing. There are views of the sea to the N and to the E, with the hills of Mull in the distance. The sea and Beinn Hough are visible to the W. The view to the S is of farm land with Ben Hynish visible on the horizon. The field is marshy in places and has a grass covered old, now unused, raised track or bank immediately to the N of the panel and running E-W from the W fence of the field before turning N just to the N of the outcrop. Parts of the field to the S seem to have been drained in the past but now may be grazed by animals. The field is enclosed with a post and wire fence about 80m to the N, where there is also a line of telegraph poles. There a fence 97m to the W and another 29m to the S. The panel is a rocky outcrop in the field but there are at least 3 other outcrops with rock art (NT 007).

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) 2.4 Width 1
Height (max) 0.3 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
2 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SE Carved Surface Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

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

C4. Surface Features

  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is 2.7m N-S by 1m and up to 0.50m high. This small rock outcrop is low to the ground. The edges are turf covered apart from the NNW edge which is the highest part. The surface of the panel has a very slight SE facing slope. There are 2 cup marks on the top of the panel, one is 1cm deep and 6cm in diameter and the second cup is 3cm deep and 10cm in diameter. The cups are 50cm apart and between the cups there appears to be a drill hole. The panel has a light cover of lichen.

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

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

No comments added