Slockavullin

Nearest town:
Lochgilphead (10km SE)
OS reference:
NR825981
OS sheet:
55
Latitude:
56° 7' 33.22 N
Longitude:
5° 29' 59.72 W
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Images

Image of Slockavullin (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

Line of small cups to the lower end of the outcrop, next to the track, roughly corresponding with Naddair’s ‘Panel D’.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jan 19, 2007
Image of Slockavullin (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

Not easy to get a decent pic of these shallow, but decidedly artificial cup marks. Not so sure if the ‘axe head’ is an axe head though. It could be a later addition.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jan 19, 2007
Image of Slockavullin (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

The outcrop bearing the slab with cups and an ‘axe head’ carving. Pretty strange axe if you ask me.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jan 19, 2007
Image of Slockavullin (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

You can just about make out the circular plan of some kind of structure. I don’t think it’s a ‘banked stone circle’ as I was told by a chap nearby.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jan 19, 2007
Image of Slockavullin (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

Standing stone? More likely one of the grounders of a structure in a settlement.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jan 19, 2007

Articles

Slockavullin

Hob
Hob Jan 19, 2007

I feel a bit embarrassed about posting this site as rock art, as I feel it’s more of a settlement. It’s the lumpy outcroppy bit to the north of the village of Slockavullin. It’s got traces of circular structures, one of which was described to me by a local grockle as a ‘banked stone circle’. It might have been, it is an earthen bank, and it has stones in it, but it’s not very likely to be honest. I think they are more likely to have been grounding stones of a building, only one of them was standing, and then only to a height of about 80cms. I couldn’t help but wonder if the 18thC buildings which constitute the current village was built on top of a much older site, mostly for the same reasons, it’s flat, but no good for farming, but it has a good water source and is close to the good farming bits. If trees weren’t there, it would be a 20m walk to a point where you’d be able to see all of the monuments from Ballymeanoch to Glebe Cairn, and from the outcrop, you could easily throw a stone into the centre of Templewood.

Quite frankly, the rock art is a bit rubbish. In retrospect, I wasted far too much time here (probably in excess of 15 hours over the space of a week) that could have been much better spent further uphill around Loch Michean.

Visited August 2006

The scanty details on RCAHMS can be found here .

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