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FourWinds wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Some of highest more eastern hills of the plateau e.g. Bynack More and Beinn Avon have plenty of "marked rocks " with plenty bulluans but it's all natural their height is circa 1000m , what's the height of the highest recorded bulluan ? there won't be many at half that height .
Two of the reasons for that are that (a) bullauns aren't really recorded outside of Ireland at the moment and (b) there aren't any mountains in Ireland that high. Those two factors alone cover the above.

It's very difficult for a natural hollow to be perfectly hemispherical. RIver-rolled hollows tend to be slightly oval in plan, which I presume any galcially-rolled ones would tend towards, too. The question is, even if they were originally river/glacier rolled, have they been enhanced.

There arer recorded bullauns in Scotland the highest I can think of is the one in Strathardle . Do you think that the rock in the pic is man made or enhanced ?

tiompan wrote:
There arer recorded bullauns in Scotland the highest I can think of is the one in Strathardle . Do you think that the rock in the pic is man made or enhanced ?
I know Scotland has quite a few 'official' bullauns, but they've not been really looked for and catalogued.

That one's almost certainly natural to my eyes. It's much more worn on one side, which points to it being glacier-rolled to me.