Urchany 4

Date Fieldwork Started: 01/11/2017

Compiled by: NOSAS

Location Notes: This panel has not been previously recorded. It is situated in rough grazing on the S edge of a ridge that is orientated W to E and is at right angles to an undulating hillside that runs from NW to SE down to the Breakchy burn 600m away. There are panoramic views to the W, E, and S, with the ridge of hills to the N.

The panel is part of a cluster of cup-marked rocks, Urchany 2 to 7, with Urchany 1 situated 700m to the NE. It lies in sight of and 250 SW of a Bowl Barrow, and beside a deserted eighteenth century settlement. There is an old trackway running W to E 50m to the N. (see Urchany Survey April 2015 RSJ).

Panel Notes: This is a roughly pentangular boulder measuring 1.85 x 1.75m, with its longer axis running from W to E. It rises from 0.13 to 0.46m above the surrounding ground level.

Its mainly smooth surface is divided into three levels by a series of ledges. There is a W to E running fissure on the lower part of the W facing aspect. The panel has 6 cupmarks on the upper E edge, arranged into two groups comprised of two and four cups. One of the cupmarks is larger than the others.