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Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)
Date 15 March 2019
Event ID 1118778
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1118778
Date Fieldwork Started: 15/03/2019
Compiled by: ScRAP
Location Notes: The panel is situated at ground level in gorse and open woodland on a flat terrace towards the bottom of a NW sloping hillside approximately 30m S of the burn. It is about 50m S of the houses and road at the N edge of Faifley and in an area that is a Council-owned public park. It lies almost beneath electricity cables and 55m SSW of a pylon.
Panel Notes: The panel is an exposed area of sandstone bedrock roughly 6.5x5m in extent. It has a slightly domed, undulating surface with a wide linear depression running E-W, and featuring several fissures and natural hollows. There is an area of eroded red paint on the S surface, with four sets of incised graffiti letters: PMA (incised twice), AT, and PA. There are multiple cup and ring carvings spread over the E and S sections on the larger part of the exposed surface, and a smaller group along the N edge of the wide depression. The carvings on the main part of the panel include 36 cups (some of which may be natural), 2 cups with long radial grooves, 2 cups with single rings, 4 cups with single rings and gapped second rings, 1 cup with a gapped ring, 1 cup with a gapped ring and radial, and 1 arc. The smaller group includes 1 cup, 1 cup with a single gapped ring, and a complex motif comprising 3 cups with intersecting rings, 2 of which also have inner intersecting rings.
