Rock Art Database

DRUIM MOR 2

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Canmore ID 12881 SCRAP ID 2608
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57645 65942 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 01/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 2
Other names Numbering from Dougie Scott report MHG 8972
HER/SMR SM Number 4945 Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
Classification 2 Dyke Period 2 Post Medieval
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 57640 65940
New OS NGR NH 57645 65942
Lat/Long 57.66079 -4.3877
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Moved from original location
  • Re-used in structure
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing
  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • New Plantation

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Settlement
  • Burial Mound/Cairn
  • Enclosure
  • Ditch/Bank
  • Clearance cairn(s)

B5. Location Notes

The panel lies on the lower SE facing slopes of Swordale Hill overlooking Strathsgitheach. It is situated at the bottom edge and W facing side of a dry stone wall, which lies at the W end of a large field of rough grazing and immediately to the E of a newly planted field of (Christmas) conifer trees. There is a new post and wire deer fence immediately (1m) to the W of the stone wall which makes finding and observation of the panel difficult. The panel can be found about 15m S of a small gate and 15 N of the E-W fence line at the bottom of the field. A telegraph line runs N-S with poles some distance to the N and S of the stone. Although the panel may have been moved in order to use it as a foundation stone for the wall, it sits out of line (70 degrees WSW) with the rest of the wall so is likely to be in its original position. The panel is part of the wider group of archaeological monuments scattered across the hillside of Swordale Hill, including a deserted settlement, chambered cairn and cup marked stones, most of which are protected within the Scheduled Monument 4945 Drumore, Farmstead, field system, chambered cairn and cup marks. This panel lies to the SW of the Scheduled area. It has been recorded previously and a report lodged with Highland Council under the HER number MHG 8972.

Previous Notes

NH56NE 18 5764 6594 Location formerly entered as NH 576 659. NH 576 659. Cup-marked Stone, Swordale: There are twenty-four cup-markings on the exposed face of this slab which is now built into a field-wall. The slab measures 0.8m by 0.5m; the cup-markings measure up to 70 mm in diameter by 20 mm in depth. RCAHMS 1979, visited 1978. Cup-marked stone at NH 5764 6594 is as described above, situated at the wall base on the SW side. Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (J B), 24 February 1981.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In a structure Other context Stone wall

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 0.9 Width 0.5
Height (max) Height (min)
Approximate slope of carved surface
70 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface Carved Surface WSW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Friable Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Not Visible
Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a roughly rectangular stone measuring 0.9m N-W by 0.5m. The flat surface is covered with 24 cups of varying size. The cups are scattered over the whole surface of the panel but several of the cups on the lower part of the panel are larger and deeper than the ones higher up the panel.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
24

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

  • 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
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

There is a new conifer plantation immediately to the W of the wall where the panel is situated. In the future it is possible that work on the trees may impact on the panel.