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Stirling, King's Park (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Links

British Rock Art Collection - Stirling, King's Park


Meigle (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Links

Historic Scotland's Meigle Museum website


Historic Scotland's Meigle Museum website

Meigle (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Fieldnotes

This is a stunning wee museum and well worth an hour of anybody's time. The collection of Pictish carved stones is just fabulous.

Hit the links for the HS website which has more details.

Tappoch Broch — Fieldnotes

I went along here on the 14th May 2010. It's easy to find and there's parking nearby. Despite it being just along the road from Stirling I had never visited the site before.

The Broch is the victim of ongoing vandalism, negelect and wanton theft. There is a rumour of stone being spirited away by a local landscape gardener on a quad bike.

There is no sign of the "slab, 13.0cm in diameter, sculptured with three concentric rings, ... five stones into the stair lobby from the inner face of the broch" nor of the "complex carving on a recumbent stone slab at the end of the entrance passage, immediately inside the broch. The carving is of a bar, 19cm long, 9cm wide at one end, and a figure of eight at the other" mentioned on Canmore.

All in all it was quite a dispiriting visit and a real condemnation of the authorities responsible for conserving our heritage.

Tappoch Broch — Images (click to view fullsize)

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Tappoch Broch — Links

Canmore Site Record


Meigle (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

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Meigle (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Links

Meigle Stone Museum


Meigle Museum page on Rock Art UK

Meigle Stones on Undiscovered Scotland


Shows most of the stones. Nice shot of Stone 1 which has cup marks on the base, Pictish symbols on one face and Christian symbols on the other.

Stone of Mannan (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

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Stirling, King's Park (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

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Orkney — News

Neolithic 'temple' revealed at site on Orkney


http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2525441.0.Neolithic_temple_revealed_at_site_on_Orkney.php

The Stone Age equivalent of a cathedral has been unearthed in Orkney, the largest structure of its kind found in Britain.

It dates to the Neolithic period (7000-1700BC) and was found not far beneath the surface of the narrow strip of land that divides Harray Loch from Stenness Loch on the Orkney mainland.

It is an area that is at the heart of Orkney's World Heritage Site which boasts extraordinary archaeological richness. The building has been found between two of of the most famous standing stones sites in the world, the Ring O' Brodgar and the Standing Stones O' Stenness.

Aird a' Mhorain (Cup Marked Stone) — Images

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Adult literacy worker in Stirling.

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