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| Canmore ID |
6709 |
SCRAP ID |
2572 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NC 89491 24005
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED STONE |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
24/10/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
LEARABLE |
Number |
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| 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 Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
SUTHERLAND
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NC |
89480 |
24000 |
| New OS NGR |
NC |
89491 |
24005 |
| Lat/Long |
58.19097 |
-3.88137 |
| 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.) |
S |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
- Moorland
- Improved Pasture
- Bog/Marsh
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Field System
- Stone Circle
- Ditch/Bank
- Clearance cairn(s)
- Standing Stone
B5. Location Notes
The panel lies on a S and SE facing open grass/moorland area overlooking the multi-period landscape of Learable, and Strath Kildonan beyond. It is about 12m S of a substantial stone and earth bank, and 25m SW of the W most tree. The panel Learable Hill (Canmore 6717, ScRAP 267) and stone circle is 40m to the NNE, and a clearance cairn lies about 30m NNE.
Previous Notes
NC82SE 2 8948 2400.
(NC 8948 2400) Cup-marked Stone (NR)
OS 6"map, (1962)
A cup-marked, earth-fast boulder of schist with a flat upper surface exposed for an area of 7' by 3'4". The cup-marks, well-defined and measuring about 3 1/2" in diameter by 1 1/2" deep, occur in two groups, one at the SW end of the stone consisting of twelve orthodox cup-marks and an elongated marking and the other group near the middle of the stone consisting of seven small cup-marks and two elongated markings. The three elongated markings measure 6" to 7" in length and may be due to weathering combining pairs of round cup-marks.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (W D J) 29 May 1961
No change to previous reports.
Visited by OS (J B) 23 December 1976
This cup-marked stone lies some 30m SSW of a cairn (NC82SE 3), immediately within the head-dyke of Learable township (NC82se20). There are at least 16 plain cup-marks on its upper face (2m in length by 1.4m in breadth) and they measure up to 100mm in diameter and 40mm in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 6 June 1991.
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
2.1 |
Width |
1.2 |
| Height (max) |
0.8 |
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 |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Quartz Veins
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Rock Type |
Gneiss
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
- Rough surface
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is a flat-topped oval boulder of gneiss 2.1 x 1.2m with a maximum height of 0.8m. The top (carved surface) slopes gently to the SE, and the ground falls away to the S, leaving a pronounced overhang. The carved surface is weathered and cracked. There are 20 cups, all in the S half of the panel, and two elongated 'cups' on the SE edge which respect the grain of the rock and may be natural.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
The 2 elongated cups, recorded as joined cups below, may be natural
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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20
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2
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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
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
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
