tiompan
The “portal stones ” mark the equinoctial sunset , intentional ? .Due to the height of the eastern horizon not quite the equinoctial sunrise .
Two previously unrecorded cup and single rings sites from the field immediately to the north of Galtway Hill .
A new find from a couple of weeks ago . It was only when I got home that I realised that it hadn’t been recorded (Surprising as it is not that far from the farm and relatively obvious ), hence the duff pics .Didn’t spend too much time getting good pics or recording .
If anyone is in the area I can give give directions & 10 figure grid ref and hopefully they can get some pics to give the markings justice .
New find from yesterday , a couple of miles into the hills from previously mentioned marked rock at NN 97877 37061 .
Cup and ring between small cracks ,there is a smaller cup and connecting groove which proved difficult to photograph .
A few hundred metres to the north not prehistoric but noteworthy cross incised stone ,miles from any known religious site and in the middle of a small “island” surrounded by bog .
Three new finds from today , not particularly photogenic but it brings the total for Strath Urlar up to 102 .
Margaret Stewart associated this cairn with other upland cairns in Perthshire e.g. Strathgroy and even suggested it had a peristalth . Can’t see the resemblance myself , the others are much bigger and in the case of Strathgroy the peristalth is obvious . Nothing like it here .
A good example of the difference light makes in seeing motifs .I’d had a look at an old pic from four years ago and thought there might be a couple of rings .Almost ideal conditions yesterday ,when the mist cleared , confirmed that there were two arcs ,not rings .
I must have passed this gate house on the Liff brae hundreds of times as a kid .
Not the first time that rock art has been incorporated into a building , a more common feature in Perthshire .
