Rock Art Database

CNOC AN TEAMPUILL 2

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Canmore ID 368434 SCRAP ID 3322
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 58730 63570 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 01/02/2020 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name CNOC AN TEAMPUILL Number 2
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 58730 63570
Lat/Long 57.63984 -4.36815
Obtained By: GPS
Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Moved from original location
  • Re-located
other assumed moved to edge of field
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sunny Intervals
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

  • No selection
Other:roadside

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The panel is located at the E side of the minor public road to Blackhills, at the much widened entrances to three separate fields, less that 1m from the edge of the tarmac. The cup marked stone Cnoc an Teampuill 1 is not far away.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 0.6 Width 0.6
Height (max) Height (min)
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface Carved Surface S Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Fine Visible Anomalies Not Visible
Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Natural Hollows

C5. Panel Notes

This is a roughly square boulder of schist measuring 0.6.x0.6m and decorated on its S edge with 4 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
4

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
Human
  • This panel has been estimated to be seriously at risk of being damaged or destroyed.
Comments and other potential threats

It is in the verge and gets run over by farm vehicles.