Another marked rock 200 metres north of the other one .
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Returned on a slightly brighter day and detail improves .
Out for a wander yesterday with better half and found this stone in the middle of a rock art desert . Nearest recorded rock art from here is about 12 Km over a bealach at about 1400 ft so nearly three hours walking .To the south east and west it’s a lot more distance wise and the physical problems are much greater , higher hills or lochs etc .Sadly midday on a cloudy August day is not ideal for rock art pics , a shame as there is a nice wee “rosette” will have to wait for better conditions before it can be seen.
New find of underwhelming shallow cups ,with the promise of more . N.b. the most obvious “marking” is natural .
Two clear cups on south side with two smaller on the south .
Very speculative , but the axis of the flattest face of the stone ,taken from ground level , gives a fairly accurate azimuth and subsequent declination for the major standstill .
I found these engravings about four years ago close to the recorded Glennan site and assumed they were known about but it was only when reading the reports and these wern’t mentioned that it became apparent that they were a “new” find .
A new find from saturday . Although only 15 or so miles from the main areas of rock art in Perthshire , immedaitely east of the Tay/Garry there is a great drop in numbers with groups of 1-3 being found often miles apart .This one is the southernmost of a 7 mile long group on a terrace above the river . Whilst recording a great spotted woodpecker was knocking off bits from the adjacent birch tree , not doing the usual rat a tat tatting and totally oblvious until of course i got the bins out then it was off .
New find from a couple of days ago , right by one of the main paths up Ben lawers and just a few metres from a shieling .Never been noted before probabaly due to being under turf .
The central fissure seems to have quite an impact on siting of markings with only a few on one side .The ” busier side ” is also in two sections with one part cups , (some with single rings ) and the other markings that are similar to con-joined cups or “dumb-bells ” with neither description being quite right . At 410 metres OD it’s quite high for rock art .
Supposedly the burial place of Kenneth 4th of Scotland , two problems it’s never been excavated and there never as a Kenneth 4th ( some Celtic/liverpool supporters may disagree ). Kenneth 3rd was killed locally and that is probably the reason for the association .
I was thinking it had similarities with some of the excavated cairns that proved to be Bronze Age in the Brecon Beacons /Black Mountains . Sited on the high point of a spur of flat topped modest sized hills (In this case 776 m) overlooking lowlands allowing for the cairn to be seen from a wide area .
Another example of small shallow cups from an area that seems to have quite a few .Not very special except for that .Have included a ” before” for Postie .
New find from today .Total of thirty ,mostly , small cups .It seems to be a local style . A number of others within a three mile radius exhibit it , possibly the same engraver ?
i.e www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/11600/corrody_burn.html
