Crosswood

Nearest town:
Livingston (13km NNW)
OS reference:
NT063565
OS sheets:
65, 72
Latitude:
55° 47' 33.34 N
Longitude:
3° 29' 40.53 W
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Image of Crosswood (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Howburn Digger

Sunday 18 September 2011.

Four litres of water plus half an hour of crouching, leaping and stretching into every position imaginable... then much waiting for the sun to not burst through the steadily falling rain... I could get no definition at all. I could feel the spirals and motifs and could even see them when I squinted my eyes close up to the stone. But the flat, grey light on the near vertical stone gave up no images.
I post this for those who might come after me...

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Sep 19, 2011

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Crosswood
Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jun 1, 2005

from the RCAHMS website:

A Mr K Bowman and a Mr K Waldron have noted four cup-marked stones in a field clearance heap to the S of Crosswood Reservoir. One stone has double spirals, and a cup-mark with emanating chips and pecked edges. A further cup and ring-marked stone was found on top of the clearance heap. The local shepherd indicated that the stones had been put there some 15 years ago when the field was ploughed.
Information from letter from K Waldron, 1990.

Towards the W end of a patch of recently cleared ground, there is a pile of field-gathered boulders. Four of the boulders are decorated with motifs which include spirals, rings and cup-marks. The stones were gathered together in about the mid-1970’s.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 9 November 1990.

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