Cragganester 4

Date Fieldwork Started: 14/11/2019

Compiled by: Killin

Location Notes: The panel is situated at 216m asl, at the highest point of a prominent ridge comprising an extensive outcrop of schist bedrock, Cragganester Rock. The outcrop marks the SE edge of a broad and locally undulating terrace between approximately 200-250m asl, on the lower slopes on the S side of Ben Lawers, to the SE of which the ground drops down more steeply towards Loch Tay. The outcrop slopes to the NW, and has a near-vertical drop of approximately 10m to the SE. The Allt a' Chireinich burn runs SE approximately 130m to the SW. The location has wide views towards the S and SE of Loch Tay, and NW up to Ben Lawers and Beinn Ghlas.

A cupmarked stone (Cragganester 1, ScRAP 2210, also recorded under Canmore 24476) lies approximately 80m to the NE of the panel, on the SW side of the driveway to Cragganester. The nearest other recorded decorated stone (Cragganester 3, ScRAP 2007, Canmore 291620) lies approximately 260m NNW, on the N side of the A827, within SM6168 ("Cragganester, farmsteads, field systems, shielings and roadways, N of"). A bronze flat axehead (Canmore 24481) was found 110m SE of the panel. Other nearby sites recorded on Canmore include two farmsteads, one (Canmore 163592) 100m to the S, the other (Canmore 291219) 200m to the W, and two townships, one (Canmore 291218) 100m to the W, the other (Canmore 140363) 140m to the SE.

Panel Notes: The panel is located at the SE corner of a large expanse of exposed bedrock (Ben Lui Schist Formation), only part of which was cleaned. As cleaned, the panel is defined by the edge of the cliff on its S side, by a vertical face to the E, a drop in its surface to the W, and to the N by a visible crack in the bedrock. Before cleaning the panel was covered in moss and lichen. The rock is hard and coarse-grained with a rough uneven surface, displaying cracks and fissures, splits along bedding planes, and quartz veins and nodules. The panel measures 1.4m long (E-W) and 0.9m wide, and is 0.2m high on its S and E sides. It slopes down to the N (15 degrees) and S (20 degrees) from a narrow level ridge near its centre on which 2 possible cupmarks are arranged in a line. The cupmarks are approximately 80mm in diameter and 20mm deep.