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| Canmore ID |
368457 |
SCRAP ID |
3028 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 54937 58938
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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 |
23/10/2017 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
DINGWALL CHURCHYARD |
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 |
| Classification 2 |
Pictish Symbol Stone |
Period 2 |
Early Medieval |
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
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| New OS NGR |
NH |
54937 |
58938 |
| Lat/Long |
57.59707 |
-4.42884 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
- Moved from original location
- Re-used in structure
- Provenance unknown
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| other |
re-used as pictish standing stone |
| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Cloudy
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| Position in landscape |
Bottom of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Flat |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
Other:churchyard
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
This stone is recorded in Canmore (12820) as a Pictish Symbol Stone that in 1880 was in use as a lintel over a doorway in St Clement's Parish Church, Dingwall.
It has since been moved to the churchyard where it is set upright in a prominent position immediately inside the main gate. The church itself is about 20m to the N.
Outside the churchyard about 600m SE of the stone is the mound with Obelisk (Canmore 106303) in the centre of the car park.
C1. Panel Type
| In a structure |
Standing stone monument |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.2 |
Width |
0.5 |
| Height (max) |
1.2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
E |
Carved Surface |
W |
C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
Other: N edge appears to have been broken
C5. Panel Notes
The stone is a flat-sided slab of grey mica schist set upright, 1.2m high x 0.5m across x 0.2m thick. It is aligned approx. N-S and its N edge appears broken. There are 5 cups on the E face (A), evenly spaced, 4 of which are in a diagonal line. The 2 cups on the W face (B) are close to the centre of the carved surface. The stone has been re-used and characteristic Pictish symbol carvings are evident on the E and W faces, obviously incomplete at the N edge. The Pictish carvings are in 4 areas (2 on each face) and do not overlie any of cups.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
6 cups are clear and well formed, one is indistinct
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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7
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. 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
Animal
Human
- The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats
In the churchyard along with gravestones. Possible damage from grass cutting and strimming but none evident.
