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Cairnholy 19

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Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)

Site Name Cairnholy 19

Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)

Canmore ID 368426

Site Number NX55SW 125

NGR NX 51621 54452

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital photograph of close ups of motifs, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and Galloway
Digital photograph of close ups of motifs, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of close ups of motifs, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of rock art panel context, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel before cleaning, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayScanned image of rock art panel sketch, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowaySnapshot of 3D model, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel to north, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel in context with scale, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel to south, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowaySnapshot of 3D model, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel to east, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel to west, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panel in context without scale, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayDigital photograph of panorama, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowaySnapshot of 3D model, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and GallowayScanned image of rock art location sketch, from Scotland’s Rock Art Project, Cairnholy 19, Dumfries and Galloway

Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Kirkmabreck
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Activities

Note (12 September 2019)

Scotland’s Rock Art Project

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.

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