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mascot wrote:
Looks like Beanley Portable A is not one of these, found links on the web to this as N4368, between the Ringses and Beanley Plantation. If that is the case then there are 3 rock arts listed in Keys to Past as coming from this area and going to Alnwick Castle Museum but only two "portable" rocks listed at the museum....
http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/panel_search_results.asp?offset=60

Lists 11 +2 portables .

Tiompan

Yeah, I spotted that but if you go on keys to the past there are three rock arts listed that are near this site and listed as being at Alnwick. Unless I missed something what I could see at the link you give was that the 11 were all still in their original context and 2 were listed as moved from site?

Keys to the past lists 3 as being moved to Alnwick, obviously one of these might not be listed under "beanley portable"? Also the map sites show on Keys to the past for the moved rocks must be "guesstimates" as the portable rock details give no exact details of the original location?

The Keys to the past reference ids are N3151/3163/4368. I think N4368 is Beanley Portable A.

Cheers

Mac

Thing there is, with the possible exception of Beanley 1 the Beanley stuff is associated more with The Ringses camp. If you look at the level of complexity, it gets more complex the further west you get, with Beanley 1 being more complex than the others. Those on the eastern edge of the moor are slightly iffy cups. Dripping thick with monster bracken too.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that there is a vague pattern to suggest that the closer you get to the more substantial outcrop by the Plantation fort, the more complex the rock art. Given that many of the other fancy panels in that bit of Nbland are usually on west facing outcrop near freaky karst features in the rock, I reckon there's a good chance that the plantation fort could have had it's own more complicated RA. Add in the cist, and the more complex motifs on the Beanley Moor cist cover (The fancy one in Alnwick castle's Postern Tower museum). Problem being it might well be that any Beanley plantation RA probably either got itself quarried away or buried under a couple of feet of pine needles.

Then there's the RA gap between Beanley and Hunterheugh, in the form of Kimmer Crags, which lie above a prehistoric cairnfield and a nice wee lough, both good pointers to the (onetime?) prsence of some RA.

Hey, I can live in hope ;)