Cloanlawers

Also known as:
Allt Coire Phadairlidh and Lawers Burn
Nearest town:
Aberfeldy (17km ENE)
OS reference:
NN690427
OS sheet:
51
Latitude:
56° 33' 28.57 N
Longitude:
4° 7' 53.93 W
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Images

Image of Cloanlawers (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by tiompan

Some of the quartz as mentioned in Pilgrims post in finds tray bottom left

tiompan
tiompan Jan 25, 2017
Image of Cloanlawers (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

An Rock Art Art-ists impression of the Allt Coire Phadairlidh-1 site by Mary Kroetsch, a Canadian Fibre Artist specialized in bead embroidering techniques. Posted with her permission.

rockartuk
rockartuk Feb 1, 2004

Articles

Cloanlawers

tiompan
tiompan Jun 27, 2010

New find from a couple of days ago , right by one of the main paths up Ben lawers and just a few metres from a shieling .Never been noted before probabaly due to being under turf .
The central fissure seems to have quite an impact on siting of markings with only a few on one side .The ” busier side ” is also in two sections with one part cups , (some with single rings ) and the other markings that are similar to con-joined cups or “dumb-bells ” with neither description being quite right . At 410 metres OD it’s quite high for rock art .

Cloanlawers

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Aug 15, 2007

The terrier and I recently spent a couple of days camping on the shores of Loch Tay.
I could see by the map that getting to this site was going to be a bit of a struggle but Tiompans lovely pictures and Stan Beckensall’s description of the site in his lovely book Circles of Stone had this marked down as a must-see.
I parked up in a gap on the roadside at approx NN697422 and then passed through the field gate onto the steep hillside. The contours fall pretty close together here and the ground is pretty wet. It took the terrier and I a good bit of too’ing and fro’ing to pick our way through the chest-high bracken and shin-deep bogs to climb the steepest part of the hill. Eventually we reached the final stone wall, the slope eased off a little and the walking became a little easier.
As we worked our way up the slope I could see a group of people standing roughly where I had worked out that the carvings should be, just my luck I thought, having slogged up the hill to have my peace disturbed by a bunch of folk shooting rabbits or some such nonsense.
As I moved up the hill the figures began to take shape “that fella doesn’t half look like George” I thought, “that other fella is the dead pop of Stan Beckensall, blimey there’s Richard Bradley!” I began to think that perhaps the pot of expresso that I’d drunk before setting off was having some bizarre hallucinogenic effect. As I got closer I could see the bloke who looked like George squinting and smiling at me.

Basically what I’d stumbled upon was the tail-end of an excavation by Richard Bradley and his team with George, Stan with Paul Frodsham paying a visit. Here was me on my first visit to Perthshire, I pick an obscure upland site to visit and stumble across this jolly bunch.
As for the site itself, the excavations were coming to an end, Richard Bradley busied himself ensuring that the recording and back-filling was all going to plan. Stan kindly showed me around the site including some new carvings. I was fortunate enough to be able to lift the turf off some of the known carvings and basically drink the whole thing in.

From my point of view it was a real privilege to be able to sit down in the landscape and discuss archaeology and rock art with such lovely folk as George and Stan.
Beautiful rock art in a fantastic landscape shared with excellent company. Who could ask for more?

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Anyone know how visible these lads are now? 2
FourWinds
FourWinds
Nov 2008

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