Blairbuy 2

Nearest town:
Whithorn (7km ENE)
OS reference:
NX373412
OS sheet:
83
Latitude:
54° 44' 21.02 N
Longitude:
4° 31' 39.32 W
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Images

Image of Blairbuy 2 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Dark Galloway

Rock art panel in early morning light, looking towards the Fell of Barhullion.

Image credit: Andy H
Dark Galloway
Dark Galloway Apr 6, 2025
Image of Blairbuy 2 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by markj99

Blairbuy 2 Carved Panel is in the Centre of the Rocky Knoll on the SE Side, located at NX 37289 41169.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Jan 31, 2025
Image of Blairbuy 2 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartwolf

panel 2, and the newly found carved rings and grooves around the 2 depressions or basins.

Image credit: Brian Kerr 2008
rockartwolf
rockartwolf Mar 18, 2008
Image of Blairbuy 2 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartwolf

Panel 2 16-3-2008

Extremely weathered carvings only seen by side flash, the side flash has brought new carvings to light that have never previously been recorded.

Image credit: Brian Kerr 2008
rockartwolf
rockartwolf Mar 17, 2008

Articles

Blairbuy 2

Dark Galloway
Dark Galloway Apr 6, 2025

As the ground begins to rise on the climb up to the Fell of Barhullion, in the rock strewn fields lie a series of small drumlins called Langmaiden Feys (I sense there is the strong possibility of some forgotten folklore in such a name). A series of north-east/south-west sloping, grassy outcrops and boulders. It is on the largest of this drumlins that the rock art panel can be found, but you need to look carefully,

I’d attempted the find the carving a few days before, walking right past it at least twice, being rendered invisible in the afternoon sun. After checking on its location again, I returned a few days later, climbing up on to the biggest drumlin in the pre-dawn gloaming, I could see what looked like a few faint concentric circles on one of the rocks. Not helped by the surface of the rock having been encroached by moss since the online photos had been taken, nearly twenty years before.

I half-heartedly took a couple of photos along the top of the outcrop, more out of a sense of, ‘well I’m here now’ than anything else, and wandered off across the field to do photos on another drumlin, covered with twisted hawthorns. Then the sun came up and everything changed!

Looking out over Luce Bay, with the sun rising behind the Fell of Barhullion behind me, I could see the deep, red light reflected in the window of a house across the bay. Slowly, the light inched towards me, until it reached the field in which I stood.

As the sun crept over the shoulder of the Fell of Barhullion, the first part of the field to receive light was the highest part of the biggest drumlin, exactly where the rock art is situated. I dashed across the field, back up onto the ridge and there, springing out from the rock in the low, raking sunlight were the carvings.

I’ve often wondered why those ancient stone carvers picked particular rocks and not others, but here, in the early morning sunlight I could see perfectly why they picked that exact place.

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