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tiompan Sep 19, 2011 17:28:01
Replying to Howburn Digger

Howburn Digger wrote:
StoneGloves wrote:
Hey ! Is Slaggyford in Scotland now? Please start your own topic >
Nah. It's never been in Scotland, though I think it was part of the Scottish Royalty's Southern Estates or something about a thousand years ago.

This forum topic had mentioned a drystane dyker who had actually discovered real rock art. This real rock art was found built into a dyke at Dunsyre (S Lanarkshire) in Scotland. Other nearby real rock art examples include Crosswood (West Lothian) and Lamancha (Scottish Borders). I had pointed out that we only had a few examples here in South Lanarkshire (3 in total), and Tiompan had pointed out that while there are only a few examples - they are all elaborate.

I can confirm Tiompan's description of the Crosswood slab's problematic positioning with regard to photographing the beautiful, elaborate motifs... After a marshy hike up this morning, the view 30 miles North to the Ochil Hills beyond Stirling was considerably clearer than my own close-up photos of the real rock art on the hill above Crosswood Reservoir. Cossack impersonations Tiompan? It was four litres of water from my rucksack, 45 minutes standing in the rain, flat grey cloudy 11 am light and I was doin' pas de basques in my hiking boots and hi-viz vest. Truly upsetting for around and I still couldn't get the light or any definition!

Anyway, Tiompan started this topic and it was he who had introduced the Dunsyre example of a piece of actual real rock art being found by a drystane dyker. I played my own small part in the recovery of the Dunsyre portable and have every right to contribute to the topic thread. This is not your thread or topic Stonegloves.

Just spotted this H.D .

I tend to ignore the cheek and ignorance and forgot that I had even started the thread but asking to start another ' fits in with the "my stones and "my sites " mentality , even though they are imaginary .

A return visit in frozen blue skied december beckons ,eh ?

D drewbhoy
drewbhoy Sep 19, 2011 18:25:51
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Howburn Digger wrote:
StoneGloves wrote:
Hey ! Is Slaggyford in Scotland now? Please start your own topic >
Nah. It's never been in Scotland, though I think it was part of the Scottish Royalty's Southern Estates or something about a thousand years ago.

This forum topic had mentioned a drystane dyker who had actually discovered real rock art. This real rock art was found built into a dyke at Dunsyre (S Lanarkshire) in Scotland. Other nearby real rock art examples include Crosswood (West Lothian) and Lamancha (Scottish Borders). I had pointed out that we only had a few examples here in South Lanarkshire (3 in total), and Tiompan had pointed out that while there are only a few examples - they are all elaborate.

I can confirm Tiompan's description of the Crosswood slab's problematic positioning with regard to photographing the beautiful, elaborate motifs... After a marshy hike up this morning, the view 30 miles North to the Ochil Hills beyond Stirling was considerably clearer than my own close-up photos of the real rock art on the hill above Crosswood Reservoir. Cossack impersonations Tiompan? It was four litres of water from my rucksack, 45 minutes standing in the rain, flat grey cloudy 11 am light and I was doin' pas de basques in my hiking boots and hi-viz vest. Truly upsetting for around and I still couldn't get the light or any definition!

Anyway, Tiompan started this topic and it was he who had introduced the Dunsyre example of a piece of actual real rock art being found by a drystane dyker. I played my own small part in the recovery of the Dunsyre portable and have every right to contribute to the topic thread. This is not your thread or topic Stonegloves.

Just spotted this H.D .

I tend to ignore the cheek and ignorance and forgot that I had even started the thread but asking to start another ' fits in with the "my stones and "my sites " mentality , even though they are imaginary .

A return visit in frozen blue skied december beckons ,eh ?

Do it in the hols and I'll come and have a look as well. Better than going yersel!

H Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Sep 20, 2011 15:55:30
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
Howburn Digger wrote:
I can confirm Tiompan's description of the Crosswood slab's problematic positioning with regard to photographing the beautiful, elaborate motifs... After a marshy hike up this morning, the view 30 miles North to the Ochil Hills beyond Stirling was considerably clearer than my own close-up photos of the real rock art on the hill above Crosswood Reservoir. Cossack impersonations Tiompan? It was four litres of water from my rucksack, 45 minutes standing in the rain, flat grey cloudy 11 am light and I was doin' pas de basques in my hiking boots and hi-viz vest. Truly upsetting for around and I still couldn't get the light or any definition!
Just spotted this H.D .

A return visit in frozen blue skied december beckons ,eh ?

Aye methinks so. I'll certainly return again. But even then I'm not too sure whether even the most frozen, bluest December day ever will do the trick. The slab's current position (facing roughly South) means it is getting light directly onto its vertical surface all day and with the best will in the world, the shadows just ain't gonna be coaxed out very easily. By contrast the East facing, gently angled, sloping aspect of the slab with the Barharrow 7 spiral near Twynholm on Saturday morning was fairly easy to coax a nice picture or two from.
I was sooo tempted to chuck some dirt onto the Crosswood slab's decorated face and then half- rinse it off to get some kinda vague outline for a photo(I didn't of course). Given that the slab was only carted to its present position 35 years ago, is it beyond the realms of a workmanlike solution to reposition it to (say) by a few inches and degrees into a slightly more East-facing or West-facing resting place, where its near-invisible artwork could be revealed more fully?
Such are the rum thoughts which filled me on my descent.