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Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)
Date 22 July 2019
Event ID 1118426
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1118426
Date Fieldwork Started: 22/07/2019
Compiled by: Ulterior Motifs
Location Notes: Ormaig 1 is located at NM 82231 02707. The panel is approximately 5m SW of Ormaig 2 and 10m S of Ormaig 3. The site is signposted and accessible by a footpath from the forestry road approximately 80m to the W of the site. The panel lies in its original location on a sloping hillside with a SW aspect. The hillside was formerly forested but the area containing the panels is now felled (surveyed in July 2019). The panel has clear views to the NW over Loch Craignish.
This record originally recorded multiple panels at Ormaig which have, as part of the Scotland's Rock Art project, been separated into four distinct panels. This record relates to one of the largest and the most southerly of the panels which is most famous for its distinct rosette style motifs.
Panel Notes: The panel is located within it's original context in the landscape, on a sloping rocky outcrop. The main rock surface has a SW aspect with the majority of the carved surface orientated to the W. The panel is medium grain schist with a hard compactness. It has fissures, natural hollows and bedding planes visible on the surface. The panel is approx. 7.8m long, 5.1m wide and has a maximum height of 1.1m and has two main surfaces. The surfaces of the panel have been carved with numerous motifs, including: c.113 regular sized cupmarks, nine large cupmarks, one set of two conjoined cupmarks, five cups with a tail, one cup and ring with a tail, two cups with two complete rings, 14 cups with partial rings, 15 cups with single complete rings, three rosettes (one large; two smaller), one cup with a complete inner and an incomplete outer ring, 9 grooves, two sets of parallel grooves and two oval shapes.
