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Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)
Date 25 November 2020
Event ID 1128676
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1128676
Date Fieldwork Started: 25/11/2020
Compiled by: NOSAS
Location Notes: The panel overlooks the broad flat valley of the River Spey, from about 50m up a steep N facing slope, on a slight spur. It is situated in moorland in an area with sparse birch trees, and thickets of juniper and broom. The more open areas are largely covered in bracken.
Panel Notes: The panel is a large boulder of brown gritty psammite, 4.5m x 3.5m and 2.6m high at the N end. The motifs are all on the top surface of the rock, which has a N-S cleavage, and some of them are in rows reflecting the rock structure. A section of the rock at the E is separated from the main rock by a deep fissure, and has 9 cups, 7 of which are joined. The main (W) part of the panel has 20 single cups, a dumbell, a groove, a cup-and-groove motif which respect the 'grain' of the rock, and one prominent cup-and-groove motif which cuts across it. When located, the whole boulder was thickly covered in mosses and lichens of various sorts. The sloping area at the W was carefully examined and no motifs found, and the area was not cleared.
