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That's all interesting stuff fellas, cheers.

I like the idea that the line between ritual and utilitarian can be blurred. There's at least one example of cup stone in a house up here in Northumberland (not sure of the date), which implies some kind of crossover, whereby the ritual is (literally) at home in a domestic context.

Of course that's assuming that RA has some kind of 'ritual' significance.

Just to add my two peneth worth..

A little old peel tower not too far from me called Gilnockie Tower with a really nice spiral.

The minister for Kenmore in the late 19th C , the Rev. Mckenzie not only recorded a lot of rock art but described the use of marked rocks in and around homes of his parishioners as effectively charms .When you start to add reuse in forts/duns ,brochs , homesteads,churches , townships ,hut circles , enclosures etc to the souterrain record we get past the 140 mark and counting ,and that excludes possible reuse in monuments like stone circles , chambered cairns , cists etc. Pretty powerful and long lasting ju ju .