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A new find find from a few days ago and and a couple in the same area from last year .

Some examples of non rock art mostly from the Dundee area . The first four apart from the “standing stone ” are closest to the type of natural markings found at Slaggyford . As these are clearly not prehsitoric I’ll take them off in a couple of days if that is ok by the eds . However they might be a handy comparator .

Possible standing stone in the S.W. corner of Vatersay .
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This is not the recorded marked rock by the oil tank but one I discovered about 7 years ago a in the field to the south of the farm . Small cups again ,also in a rosette but this is 25 miles and over two ranges of hills from the similar Corrody burn example . An interesting story about this is that a few weeks ago I came across a pic of it taken from the now defunct BRAC website and used to illustrate a very poorly argued idea for rock art motifs being maps of the local monuments . The pic had no caption and was supposed to be an example of a representation of a grouping of barrows .When I asked the unfortunate who had come up with the idea he had no idea where the rock was situated , what it was called or where the pic came from ,yet he had decided that it “represented ” a grouping of barrows in the area . Needless to say there are no barrows in the area and he missed the other markings on the rock .meaning there would have been an even greater number of “non” barrows in the area . Fwiw some of the cups are aligned on the cardinal points and there is a sun roll seen from the stone over the nearby Schiehallion .

Two small cups within an occulus and another at the centre of the arcs .

More small cups .

Some examples of small cup marks ,in one of the examples they are small enough to be considered large pick marks .