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I went for a jaunt to Meigle today to look at the Pictish carvings. Stone number 1 in the museum has cup marks on the base. Do you think this should be added to the site?

Yup, I did it with a cup marked Pictish stone at Rhynie.

Paddybhoy wrote:
I went for a jaunt to Meigle today to look at the Pictish carvings. Stone number 1 in the museum has cup marks on the base. Do you think this should be added to the site?
There used to be a cast of the markings in the musem , which are actually covered by cement/plaster at the base . I don't think the small cup like marks that are still visible on the slab are actually cup marks .

There is a drawing of (the cast) of the cemented-in section of stone-1 on BRAC:
http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c1629215.html
It would be great to have a current image!
This discussion is in the Angus forum, but Meigle Museum is in Perth & Kinross.
Cheers,
Jan

www.esotericsource.org wrote:
The highly stylized rock engravings, found on what are known as the Pictish Stones, had once been thought to be rock art or tied to heraldry. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, instead concludes that the engravings represent the long lost language of the Picts, a confederation of Celtic tribes that lived in modern-day eastern and northern Scotland.
I was reading the above article on Esoteric Source. They are a long way from knowing what the language on the stones conveys, and always will be without some kind of rosetta stone discovery. I wonder if the cup marked stone was deliberately used now, and in what context - more things I'll probably never know, dammit.