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Still no easier to photograph, but my eyes ‘saw’ a leaping dog in this photo when I reviewed it on the screen. Can you see it?

Detail of what is now the left edge of the panel

Nice :)

This is as much of an overhead view as I could get, standing on a half dead tree. Additional lighting using a couple of flash heads, no HDR used.

Probably the most difficult piece of rock art to photograph, purely due to the presence of a cottage and van directly behind it!

From up here the tomb looks like an enormous lizard creeping through the forest

This is the partial panel which seems to have been broken

Better preservation makes this pair of cup and rings unmistakeable (smaller design hard to make out just above the larger). From a boulder lying along the path to the boulder burial.

Are they? Aren’t they? The cup and rings identified on the top surface of the boulder burial.

Simple yet strikingly beautiful; large cup and rings on main panel.

You may be able to make out a cup mark or two

Detail of section on the main (large) panel using ye olde water tricke

The Calf House has now become the worlds first Steak
House in a dolmen.

Cup and four rings visible off centre, cup and single ring above this to the right and one or two possible cups dotted about. A very weathered three or four ring design is to the left of the outcrop, better photos of this coming soon.

Closer shot showing up the unusually long radiating grooves bisecting an oval shaped motif with offset cupmark.

Most of the main group of motifs on this long bulky stone. Along the top ridge is a series of cup and rings with quite substantial cups that were difficult to bring up due to their position.

I counted about 15-16 single cup marks on the western face of the stone, one with a single ring. The markings appear to continue below present ground level.

7/9/07: Viewed from Ballynahow Beg rock art, the setting sun seems to be heading towards the notch in the hills, worth checking out if it sets in the notch at the equinox?

Note: A tree stands between the rock art and the notch where it was once possibly a clear view, this is taken in line with the rock art, in front of the tree.

Equinox approaching, 7/9/07

The carvings here are exceptionally shallow but it doesn’t appear to be due to heavy weathering, it seems the markings were left quite superficial.

Rock art under the heavens, The Plough moved just slightly off frame between setting up the shot and taking it.

Two weeks before the equinox and the setting sun is moving into position behind the recumbent stone.

Some boisterous bullocks prevented me getting further than the gate but the stones are wonderfully skylined from the crossroads.

A headstone commemorates three friars killed by Cromwellian soldiers in 1651 near this spot, the stones were regularly whitewashed like many stones but perhaps with more resonance here.

The carvings are much more eroded than first appearances would suggest. The cup marks are still very deep but the lights brought up definite rings around most of them where only one had a clearly defined ring in ambient lighting.