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GLASSIE 1

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Canmore ID 25709 SCRAP ID 2630
Location OS Grid Ref: NN 85070 51246 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP AND RING MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 20/05/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name GLASSIE Number 1
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number SM9511 Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
PERTHSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NN 85070 51250
New OS NGR NN 85070 51246
Lat/Long 56.63888 -3.87549
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Light Rain
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

  • Bog/Marsh
  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System

B5. Location Notes

Located on an outcrop of bedrock on gently S sloping land c. 70m to the E of a deciduous plantation, c. 125m W of a coniferous plantation and c. 450m to the NE of Glassie Farm, in a field of rough grazing surrounded by boggy terrain. There are extensive views to the S over the Appin of Dull and the River Tay. This site is a scheduled monument.

Previous Notes

NN85SE 3 8507 5125 See also NN85SE 27. (NN 8519 5105) (information from M E C Stewart, 14 December 1964). Two stones, one of which is cup and ring marked, are situated behind Glassie farmsteading. The marked example is a three-sided pyramid, two of the sides bearing numerous marks. The stone is part of the living rock of the hill and not a boulder. About 80 yds E there is another stone of similar shape, but it shows no markings. N D Mackay 1950 NN 8507 5125. A cup and ring marked boulder. It bears 20 cups, and 3 cups with rings. Surveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (BS) 18 February 1975. Scheduled with NN85SW 7 and 13 as Glassie, cup and ring-marked stones. Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 January 2001. NN 85065 51242 Small boulder, 0.82 x 0.63 x 0.3m, 4m W of NN85SE 3. Single cup, diameter 60mm, depth 10mm. C Thomas and A Hale 2005 NN 85071 51247 (NN85SE 3). Tent-shaped rock, with higher end at W. Concentration of six cups at W end, encircled by three eccentric rings. Three cups at W end, encircled by three eccentric rings. Three cups on sharp upper edge, looking E. On sloping S face are at least 13 cups. The saddle of the rock, to the E, displays three cups, two of which are prominent, in bas-relief; a single ring surrounds one. Complete ring and arc to the N surround the other to the E. On lower E side of rock are four cups, the largest of which has a gutter to the W, and is surrounded by a complete ring and an arc running from W, through E to SE. A ring surrounds a cup. Report with photographs to be lodged with Perth and Kinross SMR and NMRS. C Thomas and A Hale 2005

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) 2.3 Width 1.3
Height (max) 0.6 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
40 degrees 1 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface MULTIPLE Carved Surface Carved Surface MULTIPLE

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Quartz Veins
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly rectangular shaped panel with a rising summit at the SW end, measuring 2.3x1.3m in size and up to 0.6m in height. The rock surface is raised in the SW, it rises sharply to a peak at the S end which gently slopes towards the centre of the panel before dropping sharply and running close to the ground level. There are motifs on multiple surfaces of the rock, with the majority clustered at the S end on the W slope. At the summit of the panel there is an elaborate motif consisting of four cups, of varying sizes - the largest of which has a long tail, which have been embraced by three rings (the innermost is complete, the outer two are partial) which contain three satellite cups within the second ring. These rings run across multiple surfaces of the panel, giving the impressions of ribs protruding from a spine. In addition there are three cup and single ring motifs (2 of which have a raised boss within the ring), a cup and complete ring with a tail, four cups with partial rings, a cup with a tail, and 10 solo cups.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_5
10 1
Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1 cup_and_ring_3
3 4
Other carvings and motifs
other_motif_5
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

  • 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
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

Very boggy terrain.