Leakin

Date Fieldwork Started: 12/08/2020

Location Notes: The panel lies in the centre of a robbed grass-covered cairn which has several large stones protruding from the surface. The cairn is surrounded by a broken fence and is open to grazing by sheep and cattle. The area outwith the broken fence is arable and pasture. Within the same field as the robbed cairn is a long, broken stone wall running N to S, made up of large field boulders. There are no other sites within 200m. The site has large panoramic views over the Spey Valley toward Ben Rinnes to the SE.

Panel Notes: The panel is a rectangular sandstone stone block measuring 1.2 x 0.6m and 0.2m that lies in grass-covered soil at an angle of 20 degrees within the stone cairn. Its upper surface has natural bedding planes which split the cupmarks into three distinct groups at different level. There are approximately 36 cupmarks and 1 pair of conjoined cups. The 3D model also shows 4 of the cups connected by incised and pecked grooves to form a cross-like motif. The cups are generally shallow in depth compared to their width. No toolmarks were visible. The stone may have at one time have been upright and there is therefore a possibility of cupmarks on the underneath surface.