Carvings for comment

tiompan T
tiompan Jul 31, 2012 20:31:39
Replying to Heritage Action

Heritage Action wrote:
I figured as much. Are you telling age due to colouration?

Any ideas about the hand? :)

No , style . One looks like a copy of the I.A. or later ?swastiska/fylfot and the other a runeish attempt trish/trash . The hand isn't in that tradition either ,although you do get engraved feet but they are very rare , it looks a bit fortuitous /natural .

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Annexus Quam Jul 31, 2012 22:40:56
Replying to tiompan

Hi, I've been interested in these for the last few years.

Any serious studies on foot carvings done in the uk that you know of? It's a bit of a controversial topic round these parts (you may have heard of the 'enthronement' theory, Iron Age, etc). But they seem to be so common that even I have discovered one (on a very prominent hilltop, obviously) next to some other minor cupmarks.

But this is most obvious example, discovered only a couple of decades ago:

http://www.manuelgago.org/blog/index.php/2012/07/01/pezas-de-domino-o-calco-do-petroglifo-do-outeiro-dos-podomorfos/

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