Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)
Date 23 March 2019
Event ID 1118768
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Date Fieldwork Started: 23/03/2019
Compiled by: ScRAP
Location Notes: The panel is situated on a raised terrace on the S facing hillside on the edge of a steep bank in young deciduous woodland about 6m above a drainage ditch. The outcrop is flattish and flush with the ground, forming part of a larger sandstone outcrop with evidence of extensive quarrying. A small quarry hollow lies 4m to the E and the public path to Cochno Road lies about 20m to the E. The panel is located 4m directly above a 5-6m long narrow horizontal shaft penetrating into the hillside. Other carved panels at Whitehill 1 and 2 lie about 50m NE.
Panel Notes: The panel is roughly square and flat with wide fissures forming an X shape across the surface. At the centre of the X is a roughly square hole about 6cm , possibly an enhanced natural feature for quarrying or a fence post? The rock surface has numerous fine fissures and pittings. On the E side of the panel are 2 eroded cup and ring motifs, one cup with 4 rings and a possible raidal, and adjacent to this is a cup with 2 rings. There are also 2 cups, one with a short groove, and a third possible cup. There are some incised initials on the W side of the panel.
