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View from the site of the Neolithic Forest

The name Callumkill (formerly Kilcallumkill or Kilcholmkill) suggests a chapel dedicated to St Columba there and local accounts state that nearby was a well into which offerings were dropped. RCAMHS found no trace of the chapel site – could the well have been Tobar na Dabhaich, with the village/chapel site nearby rather than where the Callumkill farm buildings now stand (this well is, I believe, on land farmed by Callumkill).

Some background information on Callumkill area, no mention of this specific site.

A web site about the excavation of Castell Henllys.

To get a general sense of the landscape in the vicinity of the well check out this series of four excellent panoramic photographs, taken by single malt whisky enthusiasts on a pilgrimage to nearby Loch Uigeadail, a source of water used in Ardbeg distillery. If you follow the arrow marked Solam in the first photo you will be on your way. The site sensibly advises ‘If you make this walk in person: ignore the “path” the OS Landranger map is showing that follows the glen up to the loch. It does not exists, and will only lead you through wet boggy land with high grass’.

Armin Grewe and friends had more luck than me in their walk through this area, finding the well (described as a wishing well in which coins are thrown), the ruined village and some modernish carved stones – a reminder that not everything in stone is ancient

Good set of photos from Isalyphile Armin Grewe

A computer generated view of the landscape you can see from Mither Tap.

‘The Ancient British Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland and the Eastern Borders‘

Seminal work on British Rock art by Mr George Tate, 1865.

Just found this link to a diary of one of the founders of Chorley Archeology Society.

In it he mentions finds from Anglezarke and the surrounding districts.

Showing the Coles drawing of Bardristane and the Morris photograph of the now missing Bardristane 2.

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An long PSAS article from the 1920s about Broomend of Crichie – it includes a rather nice map of adjacent stones.

“The Balvarran Cupped Stone, the ‘Bloody Stone’ of Dunfallandy, and a Cup-marked Stone in Glen Brerachan ” -an article in the 1920/21 volume of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Archive photos of Dartmoor.

Aerial view of the fort.

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Some nice pics of a few Cornish monuments and natural rock formations, including an infra red image of the Men-an-Tol

Notice of the discovery of cup- and ring-sculpturings at Duncrosk [sic], near the falls of Lochay, in Glenlochay. By D Haggart, Killin.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Volume 29 (1894-95) p92-3.

‘A record of the cup-and-ring-markings in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. By Fred R. Coles’ in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 29 (1894-95).

Descriptions and diagrams of the groups of carvings at:
Balmae
Knockshinnie
Torrs
Grange
Milton
Galtway and High Banks
Castle Creavie and Bombie
Little Stockerton
Nether Linkens
Newlaw Burn
Senwick
Anwoth
and Hills Stone-Circle

Aerial photograph of the cairn.

These super little beads were made from natural stone discs found on the shore below, drilled in Mesolithic times. Nab Head was an important Mesolithic seasonal camp.
This link
books.google.co.uk/books?id=v4Lh0xxgVtoC&pg=PA15&dq=%22nab+head%22&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=dCLlaDyGuvSqNp6w-KmTZ8AJ5RE#PPA13,M1
shows another carved shale artefact – its discoverer, J P Gordon-Williams described it as a ‘Duck Head’ but this was probably to cover for its obviously phallic appearance. Though it’s also been interpreted as a stylised Venus figurine.. but let’s face it, men have been scrawling knobs on things for millennia. Does it have to have more significance than that?