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We visited the fields North of Claunch farm with permission of the farmer on the 10th of May 2005.
This image, recently taken by Claire Heron, shows what seems to be a cross-like carving.
10 May 2002; a faint cup-and-ring motif on the S-side of the outcrop
10 May 2002; The main panel with the cup with 6 rings on the left
We visited the site in August 2004 under beter photografic conditions than Wolfnighthunter encountered this year. You have to lift a quite thick layer of turf to see the whole panel.
Taken on the 5th of August 2004. View over the panel to the East.
Taken on the 5th of August 2004. View over the panel to the West.
More pics by Tiompan of this amazing rock art site and new find in January 2007!
The motif in the box on this collective drawing of “Weetwood North” panels (Stan’s “Prehistoric Rock Art in Northumberland”, page 56) is the one photographed by Hob. It seems that the drawing was not made after a rubbing. There are (much?) more motifs at Weetwood-8 waiting to be discovered.
With the nice additions to this site by Greywether, Fitzcoraldo and Hob (!), it seems that no panel will escape the sharp eye! As a modest step to completeness, I added two pics taken in 2002, of panel 5a. Who’s going for number 6?
View to the ESE with the radio/tv masts on Cambret Hill left in the background
From “The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland” by Ronald W.B. Morris (BAR British Series 86, 1981, ISBN 0 86 054 116 9) plate 147. Photo by Evan Hadingham. The stone is in the NMS, Edingburgh.
Some pics from “The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland” (BAR British Series 86, 1981) by Ronald W.B. Morris of the original finding spot of the stone, the upper and lower decorated faces and drawings.
The spirals are hard to spot due to lichen but there’s a clear tripple spiral just under the right upper corner.
A very small spiral, not noticed on former visits, just above the edge of a lintel. There’s not so much room to take the good pic but don’t make -not even a small- step backwards unless you like river swimming!
The main panel with, among other very interesting motifs, the horned spiral.
Close-up of the main panel. We call the part on the right “a bird on her nest”. These motifs do really trigger your fantasy!
We visited this site on 19 May 2004. It’s a kind of hard to find (and photograph!) due to a thick roof of rhododendron leaves. A nice combination of prehistoric cup-and-rings and much later runes. A meeting point of two worlds!
We visited the easy reachable site on Lamp Hill on 19 May 2004. It is quite remarkable that only the 6 domino cups are carved there and not a single other cup and/or cup-and-ring. It gives the site an exclusive feel with splendid view to the surrounding landscape.
From: “The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland (exept Argyll and Galloway)“, BAR British Series 86, 1981, p.61 by Ronald W.B. Morris.
We (re-) visited this site on the 5th of May 2004 and unearthed some cup-marks.
We visited the site on 12 May 2004 and wrote a small fact sheet about that adventure.