Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)

Date 20 July 2019

Event ID 1118585

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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Scotland’s Rock Art Project

Date Fieldwork Started: 20/07/2019

Compiled by: ScRAP

Location Notes: Kilbride Burial Slab 1 lies on the north-west edge of the garden next to a drystone wall and on an outcrop. The outcrop is on flat land at the bottom of the Kilbride valley. The garden is heavily overgrown, and the house lies c.30m to the north-east of the panel. The outcrop has no noticeable aspect or slope. It is in an area with other rock art sites nearby and a chapel roughly 200 metres to the north-west of the panel. The panel has a clear view looking east approximately 20 metres from a previously recorded cup marked rock. The panel is approximately 10 metres to the north of Kilbride 1 (ScRAP ID 2755) and 200 metres north-east of Kilbride 5 (ScRAP 1801). The panel is also less than a metre away from Kilbride 4 (ScRAP ID 1630) which lies on the opposite side of the tree.

Panel Notes: This panel is a burial slab which is thought to have once been used as a cist cover. The landowner (Mr R Dixon) reported that it has been found in a field further to the south, likely in the 1960's, and was relocated to the garden after being discovered during ploughing activity. The panel is 1.4 metres long, 0.6 metres wide and has a height of 0.2 metres. The panel slopes to the north-east with the carved surface sloping in the same direction. The panel is hard, fine grain schist with a smooth surface. The panel is slightly damaged by numerous linear scratches, likely caused by repetitive ploughing. The panel has been decorated with two definite and three possible cup marks, scattered across the surface. In the centre of the panel there is a cup with a single ring and a cup with two rings and a tail extending from the outer ring. Between these motifs is a faint but definite key shape motif with the open tail end at the lower edge of the panel.