The lovely lady in the Stewartry Museum in Kirkudbright was kind enough to allow me to drag the stone out from under a display case and photograph it.
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Some of the walling of the ramparts still pokes through the turf.
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Shot of the Western side of the rock outcrop which bears the Pictish carvings on its Eastern side. Older than the Picts, older than the original Iron Age fort. Many peck-marked cups. Some with faint rings. Some joined by runnels. Lots more under the turf.
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The z-rod and double-disc on the Pictish panel at the entrance.
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The smiley-faced bone pin on the Pictish panel at the entrance.
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Image from Bill Drummond’s “How To Be An Artist” (Penkiln Burn book no 6) (2002). The trans-UK placard campaign was part of an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to re-sell “A Smell of Sulphur in the Wind” by Richard Long for $20,000. The essay “A Smell of Money Underground” from Drummond’s book “45” (Little, Brown and Company 2000) goes some way to explaining what eventually happened. I’ve got my piece.
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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...
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A Raven on the summit of Goatfell with Cir Mhor beyond. Out to the West rise the distant Paps of Jura.
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The fine three cupped boulder in North Sannox.
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The “new” rock art stag. I think it’s much more impressive than the Gower one they found recently.
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Some of the geometric shapes.
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The lone stone on the way up to the Doon of Carsluith.
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Steep rampart on the North-East side of the fort.
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The drop from the edge is sheer for most of the fort’s perimeter.
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The entrance has a large stone set to its left side.
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The hillfort is protected by steep rocky cliffs on three sides.
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Composite image of the 30km of The Machars peninsula from inside the hillfort.
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The early morning view from Doon of Carsluith. Looking across Wigtown Bay to the point at Garlieston, then the dark finger of Cairn Point at Whithorn. Fifty miles away, the Isle of Man looms out showing Snaefell and neighbouring peaks.
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The mighty Cauldside Cairn on a blistering July day 2011.
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The weirdly-shaped, massive capstone points back down to Bennecarrigan on the other side of Teanga Burican.
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The drill marked stone on Cambret Moor. It has been suggested that the split-off section may have been intended for use as a cist lid on the nearby cairns.
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The stone basking in today’s Gallovidian sunshine with the valley of the Water of Fleet to the North.
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The crude, cattle-rubbed shape gives the lone stone a variety of profiles.
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A Flavian (1st Century) Roman fortlet lies under the bales in the field beyond the stone.
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Looking South – to the cemetery gates and Gatehouse of Fleet beyond.
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The view North from the Lamlash Stones, halfway between Brodick and Lamlash.
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