rockartuk
ATTENTION: The gridposition -and therefore the map too- is not correct and should have read: NU01353541, the main grid for various rock art locations along of what is left of the ridge in and outside the plantation.
The site lies 1 km NNE of Wrangham Farm, N of Doddington Moor and is accesible off the minor road that links the Devil’s Causeway with the A611. Ask farmer David Grey of Wrangham Farm for permission to walk his land.
A nice duo motif on the edge of a former quary. May 2002
The Northumberland ‘rosettes’ at Buttony, Near Wooler. September 2000.
View to the east over the Broomridge-2 rock art panel to the Goatscrag. August 1998.
Cups, some unusual shaped, at Broomridge-2 rock art site. August 1998.
We visited this unusual rock art site in May 2002. If you look for variations to the great abstract rock art tradition, this is the right place to be. Not only the horse-like design made up of > 100 cups in line, but also encircled cups with radiates will trigger your imagination. Don’t forget to ask permission from the farmer (mr Lance Strother) of Fowberry Moor Farm to walk his land. Park your car outside the farm grounds along the wall and walk-up to the farm. Cars are always in the way here! On your way back to the farm gate you’ll find Fowberry Cairn at the left side of the road just before the gate in the wooded triangle.
Over 100 cup-marks form-up what looks like a horse without legs. The whole rectangular outcrop has been used for this remarkable design.
Detail of a motif which really is a ‘variation’ of the more common cup-and-ring carvings. It looks like a chicken or jellyfish. Where there already chickens in Northumberland in the late Stone- and early bronze Age?
A panel of rock art with a nice double keyhole motif at the top.
Detail of the keyhole motif. It looks as if the (sharper) outrunning grooves are aditionals to the original cup-and-rings motif.
Panel c. Two cups with a shallow one in the middle. May 2002.
Another decorated outcrop besides the reconstructed cairn. May 2002.
Another carved rock in the direct neighbourhood of the cairn. May 2002.
Fowberry Cairn; (Near Wooler, Northumberland). View over the main panel to the SW with The Cheviot visible in the background. May 2002. (Photo by Gus)
Fowberry Cairn (Near Wooler, Northumberland). April 2000; the main panel under the cairn nearly overgrown by mosses. Compare with the following photo of May 2002.
Fowberry Cairn; The main panel of rock art on outcrop rock a few meters East of the (reconstructed) cairn. May 2002. Compare this one with the 2000 pic of the same -but overgrown-panel.
Glasserton Mains (Wigtownshire, Dumfries & Galloway); faint cup-and-(gapped)-rings on a rough surface. Site has views to the sea.
Broughton Mains-1 (Wigtownshire, Dumfries & Galloway), detail of the most western carvings from another angle.
Duncroisk; view over a panel with cup-marks to the South. May 2002.
Duncroisk North of Killin (Central). This panel of rock art was called “The Face” by Ronald W. B. Morris in “The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland” (BAR British Series 86, 1981).
Close-up of Coldmartin Loughs-2, a decorated boulder, due East of the Communication Tower and South of the Coldmartin Loughs-1 site.
Coldmartin Loughs-2; a decorated boulder, found by me in August 1998, with site 1 in the background.
Coldmartin Loughs 1; a nice panel of rock art East of the communication tower.
View over a cup-and-ring decorated outcrop rock at the (Upper) Breas of Cultallich Farm to the West. May 2002.
An unusual motif at the beautiful rock art site Balmacnaughton on the Southern banks of Loch Tay, West of Aberfeldy. May 2002
Ballochmyle. The deer carving taken in May 2002! There are actually two deer visible. But....%%#*@!!.. what?...coloured chalk, paint?......and look around; litter and garbage; pure vandalism! What a shame! Are there solutions? Who has the answers?
Ballochmyle. Sunny symbols on the cornerstone between the left and right wall. May 2002.
Ballochmyle. The left-side wall with decorating vegetation; peace and tranquility!
Ballochmyle. Upper part of the wall. It looks like airoplanes flying at you! (Always easily carried away at rock art sites!)
Ballochmyle. Part of the main wall with a lot of cup-and-ring motifs. However, there is only one with a clear outrunning groove.