Hi Rhiannon,

You are right, the day at Eggerness was special for Suzanne, Jan & myself. It was obvious to us looking at the deer and horse carvings that they were pictish, but i am not too concerned with the age gaps etc, i was more interested in the location and the placing of the carvings next to cup and ring carvings, the reason and thought process behind the carvers linking and re-using the same rock as the previous carvers. Also why that stretch of land and no where else in Galloway. Other interesting facts include some very worn animal carvings deeper below ground than the more deeply carved deer higher up on the rock which would have been more prone to weathering, perhaps a difference in time scale even between the animal carvings..a fascinating place. Other panels have still to be visited, but they will be looked at during the winter, those include deeply carved spirals next to animal carvings.