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WHITEHILL 1

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Canmore ID 44537 SCRAP ID 2539
Location OS Grid Ref: NS 51311 73970 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 23/03/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

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

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NS 51300 73980
New OS NGR NS 51311 73970
Lat/Long 55.93572 -4.38187
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Wood/Forest
  • Route way

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel is a raised domed sandstone outcrop situated immediately beside the public path running N from the Cochno Road about 200m away, at a junction in the path. The panel is on a gentle SSW facing slope in bracken and rough grazing on the edge of open deciduous woodland, and about 8m E of a wire fence into improved pasture fields. There is an electricity pylon about 200m to the S and an enclosed mobile phone mast about 100m to the E. There are views S to Law Farm and Glasgow. The panel lies 2m SW of the carved rock art Whitehill 2 (Canmore 44538, ScRAP 922) and about 50m SW of the three panels at Whitehill 3, 4 and 5 (all currently grouped under Canmore 44534, ScRAP 1750). Whitehill 6 (Canmore 44517, ScRAP 2139) lies 50m to the SW in woodland.

Previous Notes

NS57SW 34 5130 7398 See also NS57SW 6, 7, 16, 31, 32, 35, 37, 38, 42, 45, 48 and 70. (NS 513 742) A convex rock outcrop with at least 4 cup- and-rings, 2 cups with at least one ring, and over 40 other cups. They lie on the footpath 200yds N of the cup-and-ring marks at Whitehill and are traffic-worn but still deep. Information contained in letter from R W B Morris to OS, 14 October 1966 NS 5130 7398. Although worn down, this rock-face bears at least 6 positive cups, 4 of which have single concentric rings. The other cups reported above are small pittings, and appear to be natural. Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (J L D) 10 November 1966.

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) 4.2 Width 2.2
Height (max) 1.8 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
10 degrees 5 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface 0 Carved Surface S Carved Surface W

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Very Friable Grain Size Fine Visible Anomalies Quartz Veins
Other: iron inclusions 		Rock Type Sandstone

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Weathering Channels
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

There is a cluster of 4 cupmarks and 4 cups with single rings, 2 of which intersect, on the highest point of the panel, at its W end where the rock slopes steeply away. There are also a series of natural sub-circular features, particularly on its S edge, that could be mistaken for rock art motifs.

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
4
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1
4

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.
  • This panel is known to others in the local community.
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
  • There is graffiti (paintings and/or carving) on or near the rock.
  • There are quarries nearby.
  • The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added