02/03/2020, Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP), Balbirnie 2
Event ID 1132662
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1132662
Date fieldwork started: 02/03/2020
Compiled by: ScRAP
Location notes: National Museums of Scotland Collection Centre, X.EP 204
Panel notes: This is a rhomboid shaped slab measuring about 0.8 x 0.5m and 0.2m thick. The edges are broken on at least two sides, and there is some surface damage. The upper surface is rough with several pronounced bedding planes. There are 4 cups, one of which is more than 6cm diameter, 1 large cup (8cm diameter, 4cm deep) with a pennanular and short radial, 1 large cup with a pennanular, 1 cup with an arc, and 2 cups with a narrow radial. Tool markings are visible in most of the motifs and there are some roughly pecked linear features. The panel formed the side slab of a burial cist within a group of cists at Balbirnie excavated in 1970 (Canmore ID 29980). A cup marked stone (Balbirnie 1) with two carved surfaces was recovered from another cist during the same excavation, and is also in the National Museum of Scotland Collection Centre.
