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Blackhills HouseCup and Ring Marks / Rock Art
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Posted by Rhiannon1st May 2011ce |
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| To avoid any confusion it's prpbably worth mentioning that the markings are on stone balls . |
Posted by tiompan1st May 2011ce |
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No Tiompan, you're wrong this time :) Look at the notes on drew's post. That chap saw them on the stone! I know there were two of those stone balls found in the vicinity too, and that's in the article as well. But they were of the knobbly variety, they had 8 knobs apiece. They weren't spirally. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st May 2011ce |
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Yes your'e right R , sorry . What is interesting is that all faces are carved ,which is relatively common in pictish stone but not in the usual rock art tradition . |
Posted by tiompan 1st May 2011ce |
| Hmm yes I think that's what it was implying in what I read (on the rcahms record?), that it was reused later, and the spiral / 'horns' are pictish. Rather a nice touch if so. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st May 2011ce |
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Sorry wasn't suggesting that they were Pictish , although they may be . Oddely they are more like trad spirals than Pictish ones . There are a few Pictish stones with cup marks . |
Posted by tiompan 1st May 2011ce |
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