Hi Goffik,
I support your idea; these are man-made carvings, some enhanched to bait-mortars, some eroded almost out of shape but, indeed, original "rock art".
If only the design in the following photo was found on an outcrop in Northumberland, it would have been called a 'hybrid rosette'!
(http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/47295)
Furthermore, this feature is not restricted to the Western Isles. Mr F.R. Coles noted cup-and-ring marks on rocks below the high water mark on Little Ross island (NX 659 342), South of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway (PSAS 29, 1894-5, p. 68). And although they were not found during the RCAHMS's survey in 1911 nor by Morris and Bailey in 1967, Coles didn't see black cats but C&R's and he knew how they looked!
Was it a lonely fisherman who used them for his bait? Probably not because Little Ross island was inhabited in prehistoric times and the isle id known for the rig-and-furrow cultivations.
Cheers,
Jan
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