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I'm guessing patterns are random?
Yes, the patterns in the stones at Alphamstone are random - some a couple of centimetres deep. I really don't know anything about rock art and can't work out how holes like those would be created naturally; wouldn't they just get blocked up with mud up if they were outside? (the deep holes at Alphamstone are blocked up).

The natural way is for a large piece of grit or small stone to get caught in a depression then whe wind swirls it around creating a bowl like appearance.

These remind me of shellfish fossils though!