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tiompan Sep 25, 2006 08:27:15
Replying to Hob

Hob wrote:
tiompan wrote:
But Edward Lhwyd was drawing the motifs from Newgrange in 1699 and he is the earliest so far.
Oho! I didn't know about this chap. I keep forgetting passage grave RA exists. Bad case of Northumbriocentric tomb-envy ;)
But he might the first Scots chappie , Archibald Currie (no relation ) was the earliest ,writing in 1830 which may be hard to beat .

R rockartuk
rockartuk Sep 25, 2006 16:43:03
Replying to tiompan

A drawing of the -now lost- Coilsfield (Ayrshire) cist cover by Col. Hugh Montgomery of Shielmorly was presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1785.
Simpson (1866), Munro (1899) and Morris (1986) copied this and eachothers draws.
So Mr Langlands stood at Old Bewick -the craddle of rock art- in the 1820s.
By that time Col. Montgomery's drawing of the Coilsfield slab was in the archives in Edinburgh for about 35 years!
Cheers,
Jan