Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)

Date 13 August 2020

Event ID 1128394

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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Scotland’s Rock Art Project

Date Fieldwork Started: 13/08/2020

Compiled by: NOSAS

Location Notes: The panel lies on the S facing slope of the hill overlooking the junction of the River Enrick with Loch Ness. The Drumbuie Burn lies to the NW and there are new houses to the SW of the site. In the past the site has been part of the crofting landscape and there is an old turf and stone dyke about 10m to the SW of the panel. The field around the panel is rough grazing and the post and wire fence of the field is 1m S of the panel. There are several prehistoric sites in the area, a Clava type cairn to the W, hut circles lie to the N and the multiperiod site of Garbeg is about 1km to the E.

Panel Notes: This comprises two adjacent areas of exposed outcrop on a sandstone ridge, measures 2 x 0.9m overall and 0.2m maximum height. In the past more of the sandstone outcrop was visible but now only these two areas are exposed. Other carvings may still be below the deeper turf as up to 88 cups were counted in 1888. As the outcropping rock surfaces were only 1m apart, and it is likely that they were continuous below the turf, they were treated as one panel. The S part of the panel has 13 cupmarks and a single oval cupmark, all lying at the E end of the outcrop, with a few fissures and a weathered channel lying E-W. The N part of the panel has 2 fissures lying roughly NW-SE. There are 4 cupmarks at the E end of this outcropping area and a single cupmark towards its W end.