Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP)
Date 12 September 2019
Event ID 1119791
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1119791
Date Fieldwork Started: 12/09/2019
Compiled by: Kirkcudbright
Location Notes: Take the track from Cairnholy 1 to Cairnholy 2 chambered cairns, pass between the houses to the NW gate. Go to the top right corner of the field, then WNW down the hill, look for the single tree touching the panel. There is a low mound 25m to the N, 30m long. Gorse bushes to the immediate S. Kirkmuir Farm is to the W. Cairnholy 19 is 2m to the S of Cairnholy 9. GPS is accurate to 1.4m.
Panel Notes: A roughly 'L shaped panel, measuring 1.9m by 0.7m and up to 0.5m in height. The panel consists of 2 portions, here referenced to as the S and N portions. The N edge of the N portion is 2m S of Cairnholy 9. There are several motifs across the surface of this panel. In the S portion there are: 2 cup and ring motifs, one has a central cup measuring 30mm in diameter with one partial inner and a second outer ring; the other has a larger cup measuring 50mm in diameter with one partial inner and one faint outer ring with two radial extending from the central cup to the E. A large curving groove loops around one of the motifs and joins the larger of the two cups. There are also four other grooves which are likely man made. These are in two parallel pairs, which run perpendicular to each other. In the N portion there are: two solo cups, a cup with a possibly spiralling ring and a cup with one complete inner and one, possibly two, partial outer rings. These rings are very faint and hard to define.
