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Some new finds from Saturday ,plus one from a while ago that was never photographed in good enough light .Nothing spectacular but there are now 30 marked rocks in this area .

First discovered at least 35 years ago .Dunno by whom .Tree felling going on in the area so slightly apprehensive .They should be aware as it’s on Canmore .

Some new finds from today and one old find from about four years ago turned out to be more ornate on further investigation, having what looks like a cartouche like enclosure around four cups . .The first 2 pics are the old one which is among the older pics but only showing about 8 cups .The other four are two examples of before and after ,they don’t look much but a bit of oblique light and water brings out the motifs .

Is it or isn’t it ? I dunno ,if pushed I would say it’s not prehistoric but obviously not natural ,the stones have been set and the central one toppled . It’s not in Canmore or on any map . I can’t believe it wasn’t noticed by RCAHMS when they visited the nearby hut circle and enclosures .FWIW it’s aligned 42 degrees and the resulting declination is about a degree and a half off the major standstill which is probabaly coincidence .But then again , nahh .

Another good day for new finds in this area .Last three are for Postie , a typical single cup mark ,one of the most frequent finds but usually bypassed in favour of the more photogenic stuff and a before and after example .This one was pretty obvious with traffic light green moss signalling possible cups .

Today was meant to be a nice wee hill walk with better half so decided to go to a strictly non rock art area .Better half decided on wearing walking boots despite pre walk chat about how useless they are in really wet conditions .So it turned out even the wellies were put to the test in the glaur and snow melt combined with previous few days heavy rains . Returned to the car after a few hours and e decided to go for a drier “country ramble ” both in wellies this time . There was some rock art about 1 Km away but weren’t really bothered about looking . So surprised to find this one . Sorry about the secrecy as it is in a farmers field , he wasn’t in so think i should wait to tell him and also ask to have a beter look around for the expected/hoped for others .

more pics here .
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an example of natural “cups ”

Returned today in slightly warmer weather ,at least the moss ,heather and turf could be shifted and as hoped and expected there were more cups ,30 in total .

First find of the New Year , just one big cup mark with the likelihood of more under moss/turf which was frozen solid so a return visit in order .Not really a day for looking for rock art with few surfaces exposed . Included a pic of a family of deer for faerygirl , hardly wildlife photography but they are there somewhere .