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Since pebblesfromheaven & wolfnighthunter made amazing new (re-) discoveries at Townhead, we have separated the Townhead sites in different collections. This link brings you to the Townhead-1 site and you may easily navigate to the other sites from there. Enjoy!
The pics on BRAC are in sequence of the site numbers (1a-16)
With regard to the moss coverage of this site as encountered by Hob: this pic was taken in August 1998. It was at the end of a wet (national!) summer. The pics uploaded in September 2003 were actually taken in May 2002 after a very dry and hot period. So when you go there next year under the same conditions as we had in 2002, you might see (and take!) a complete different picture of this amazing site with the rare star-like motifs.
Last May we visited the area around Penkiln farm for the third time and spoke to Mrs and Mrs Evans again. She discovered not only much of the panels on Penkiln land but also in the neighbouring Culscadden field. The panels which we photographed this year were of a classic beauty with very fresh-looking pick marks.
A photographic update from June 2007
We visited this site last year May. There are several panels around this farm/camping. There’s even a cup-and-ring marked slab in a wall in front of one of the caravans (see link to BRAC below). Prehistory at your doorstep!
In 1979, Morris named this site ‘Culdoach’ and Coles, who reported the panel first in 1895, named it the ‘Little Stockerton Group’. The official (RCAHMS) name is now: ‘Brockcleugh’.
We visited this wonderful site on 11 May 2005 after parking the car along the B727 (see map) and walked up through a small stretch of forest SE of the site.
There are about 20 recorded panels in the fields SW of the Old Smithy (now Clauchendolly-) cottage. We found the most obvious during our visit on 11 May 2005.
This is a really beautiful and quite place, on the right side of a road which leads to a camping.
