rockartwolf wrote:
why that stretch of land and no where else in Galloway.
There are so many possibilities for that. The carvings could have been done by a bored Pict youth who was tending cattle on his own and decided he'd make his mark next to the old markings or maybe just thought he'd practice on that bit of rock that was already marked with some stuff, just in the way that people have marked other monuments with their names in the past.Then again, maybe there was some long-lasting local tradition in that particular area and the addition of the figures was hugely symbolic.
Pictish ritual or pictish vandalism ... could be either.
If it's vandalism should we all be saying, "look what some bastard did to this 1500 years ago!"? We would if it had been done last year.
