Broughton Mains

Nearest town:
Whithorn (5km SSW)
OS reference:
NX458456
OS sheet:
83
Latitude:
54° 46' 52.91 N
Longitude:
4° 23' 52.83 W
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Images

Image of Broughton Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartwolf

Sketch by Ludovic MacLellan Mann.

taken from,

The Archaic Sculpturings of Dumfries and Galloway; being chiefly Interpretations of the Local Cup and Ring Markings, and of the Designs on the Early Christian Monuments

Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society Transactions
series 3, volume 3 1914-15

Image credit: Ludovic Mann
rockartwolf
rockartwolf Jan 1, 2007
Image of Broughton Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

This decorated stone was shown to us in May 2004 by the friendly farmer who found it in a old stone wall with the decoration facing inward. The stone is now ‘on display’ in the farmyard behind the gas-tank.

rockartuk
rockartuk Jul 23, 2004
Image of Broughton Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

Broughton Mains-1 (Wigtownshire, Dumfries & Galloway), detail of the most western carvings from another angle.

rockartuk
rockartuk Jan 2, 2003

Articles

Broughton Mains

Moz
Moz Jan 3, 2006

I too would recommend leaving the car at the farmhouse; the track leading to the correct field is in poor condition and cotains sets of gates that are sometimes closed. The rock is a 0.5-mile walk from the farmhouse. Take the right-hand track at the fork in the road just past the farmhouse (the left-hand road is tarmaced and therefore looks more promising, but this leads to the milking sheds). Walk through the complex of barns and follow the track past a small isolated building on the left. The rock is in a fenced-off area in a field on the right, approximately 300m past this building. When I visited in December 2005 the enclosure was cluttered with a vast array of random boulders, presumably collected by the farmer from the surrounding fields. I thought this made the site look rather messy.

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Talking of cracks....one for Rich. 25
rockartwolf
rockartwolf
Feb 2008

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