Nice view of the Cheviot from this stone.
Many panels of rock art visible from here, and what looks like a prehistoric track, still slightly discernable under the modern landscape, though not really visible on this pic.
It’s a fairly straight track, and if extrapolated, would end up pretty much on the horizon, in the middle of this image.
In direct sunlight, it’s a bit ‘blink and you miss it’. Well spotted Mr Keegan.
Piper’s Cair more visible in this image, but in direct sunlight, the motif is not. It’s just to the side of the gps device.
C&R marked boulder currently in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The stone was donated to the museum in the 19thC following the destruction of the souterrain it was found in, at Letham Grange.
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
Showing cup maks on the east side of northernmost stone.
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
Showing cup marks on the west side of the northernmost stone.
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
From ‘Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1882
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
These carvings don’t seem to be C&R style, and hence are suspected to be of more recent date.
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
These carvings used to be there, but apparently they’re now gone. Weathered away to nowt.
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
I’m not sure where exactly on Dod Law this one is. Could be the enclosure site, could be in the hillfort ramparts, or could be now lost.
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
Chatton Moor, from ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone’, 1869
From ‘Incised Markings on Stone Found in the County of Northumberland, Argyllshire and Other Places’, 1869
Kammer is correct, this is taken directly from Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum.
Taken fron Borlase’s “Antiquities of the County of Cornwall” (2nd ed, 1769), where he credits ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine, May 1763, p248.
Taken fron Borlase’s “Antiquities of the County of Cornwall” (2nd ed, 1769), where he credits ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine, May 1763, p248.
When stood at panel 2, looking south, panel 1 falls dead into line with the strange rock formations at cloudy crags.
Detail of panel 2, showing the difference twixt weathered and unweathered.
Panel 2 covered over. Blink and you miss it.
Managed a quick visit here following a call to the thoroughly decent farmer to ask permission to wander the fields. This later involved a bit chat about the placement and possible meanings of the carvings. It was this chap who first discovered the carving in the early 1970s, he says he’s scoured the area for others, but none have turned up.
The carvings itself is placed in such a spot that there has to be a high likelihood that it’s creator was making reference to the natural feature of The Piper’s Chair. As Beckensall says, it is very finely carved, it put me more in the mid of the Galloway carvings I’ve seen than of the general style in Northumberland. Quite tightly made, and unusual in this neck of the woods to see 4 penannulars and such a shallow cup.
It’s also puzzling to try and work out what the damage was. I’d always assumed that it must have been quarried, but on close inspection, this seems unlikely. It’s really just surface damage, but deliberate or accidental, who can say?
