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| Canmore ID |
29980 |
SCRAP ID |
3332 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NO 2850 0304
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
02/03/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
BALBIRNIE |
Number |
1 |
| 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 |
| Classification 2 |
Cist |
Period 2 |
Bronze Age |
County
FIFE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
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| New OS NGR |
NO |
2850 |
0304 |
| Lat/Long |
56.21454 |
-3.1544 |
| Obtained By: |
Map
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
- Moved from original location
- In museum
- From excavation
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| Museum/Collection |
NMS Stores Granton Edinburgh |
| Accession no. |
X.EP203 3/B/1 |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
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| Position in landscape |
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| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
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| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
No notes added
C1. Panel Type
| In a structure |
Burial monument |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
0.7 |
Width |
0.2 |
| Height (max) |
0.2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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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 |
Colour Bands
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Rock Type |
Sandstone
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C4. Surface Features
Other: Quarrying cuts
C5. Panel Notes
This is a rhomboid block of sandstone, 0.7x0.2m and 0.2m thick, with quarrying marks on long edges. The panel was found in the 1970 excavation of a burial cist at Balbirnie which contained a Food vessel, flint knife and cremated remains (Canmore ID 29980), and formed one of the packing stones behind the cist. A cup and ring marked stone (Balbirnie 2) was recovered from another cist during the same excavation. The rock is fairly uniform in colour and texture, being bright orange and of medium grain but with reddish bands running across its length. There is a darker brown-red patch at one end. On one flat surface there are 17 cupmarks formibng rough linear alignments across the rock surface, and all showing obvious tool marks. Their sizes range from 2-5cm across, with one larger cup measuring 7cm across and conjoined to its neighbouring cup. On the edge of the panel are two further conjoined cups, and a single cup with an irregular groove running from it over the edge of the stone. All cupmarks are fairly shallow, 5-15mm depp. On the reverse face of the stone is one further cup mark.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Visible Tool Marks? Yes
Visible Peck Marks? Yes
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
In Museum collection centre
