Rock Art Database - Scotland's Rock Art Project

Cnoc Ravoch

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Canmore ID

368453

SCRAP ID

2503

Location OS Grid Ref:

NH 55411 61902

Team

Not in team

Existing Classifications

Classification	Period
Cup Marked Stone

Date Fieldwork Started	09/12/2018	Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel?	No

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name	Cnoc Ravoch		Number
Other names
HER/SMR	MHG8933	SM Number		Other

Classifications And Periods

Classification 1

Cup And Ring Marked Stone

Period 1

Neol/bronze Age

County

ARGYLL

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR	NH	55412	61886
New OS NGR	NH	55411	61902
Lat/Long	57.62382	-4.42269
Obtained By:	Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located	At original location
Accession no.	Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

New Plantation

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

No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel is located on a SE facing slope, not actually on Cnoc Ravoch, which is to the SE with the Cromarty Firth beyond. Cnoc Ravoch has a circular enclosure close to the top (Canmore 12900). Allt a'Ghaill is about 60m to the S. There are at least five springs within 500m of the panel. None of the surrounding area is currently visible from the panel. ScRAP 2203 Fleuchlady is about 350m N up the hill in open ground, and the photographs on that record give a very good idea of the general area. The panel is not easy to locate, being in recently planted dense trees. The best way (see location sketch) is to find the third fence post S from the bend in the fence and push in through the trees for about 15m where there is a very small clearing. Note that the MyCanmore attachment to Canmore 12916 has pictures of this panel taken in 2010 before the trees were planted.

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)	2.8	Width	1.7
Height (max)	0.4	Height (min)	0

Approximate slope of carved surface

degrees

Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)

Rock Surface

SSW

Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness

Hard

Grain Size

Medium

Visible Anomalies

Quartz Veins

Rock Type

Schist

C4. Surface Features

Fissures/cracks
Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is approximately oval, measuring 2.8m by 1.7m, on schist with gneissose areas. It lies low in the ground, and has a low ridge running N-S. The smaller W part of the panel slopes at about 30deg to the W, and the much larger E part at about 20deg to the E. A clear straight natural fissure divides the panel almost equally into N and S halves. A further fissure, running approximately N-S separates about 20% of the E area of the panel, on which there is a single cup. Low down on the W part of the panel is a single cup with a faint ring. There are several larger cups which show internal natural 'rings' of lighter minerals due to the gneissose fabric of the rock. There is also a dumbbell, a 'courgette', and a complex rosette arrangement of partly linked cups. Some of the cups are relatively small and indistinct. As drawn the totals are: 1 cup with 1 ring, 1 dumbbell, 1 'courgette', 1 partial rosette incorporating 7 cups, 5 larger cups, and 53 other cups, some indistinct.