StoneLifter
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 13:25
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I know of a lovely cottage, up a little lane, with a Roman altar halfway up the wall - have I mentioned this one before ? And another with a pair of ballista decorating a porchway gable - it's an old schoolhouse. But you're alright looking for Rock art incorporated into walls unless you're I, when you get turds chucked at you for finding some. Horses for courses, I suppose - and I'm the only stonemason present ...
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rockartuk
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 13:35
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What a catch; fantastic considering that Historic Scotland "de-scheduled" the stone in January 1999.
Besides some farmers and horses, Brian was the first after Coles in 1898, to actually "see" the stone.
And what to think of the "bonus" one? Great!
There are some more decorated stones cemented into walls:
Glengap: http://rockartuk.net/c986014.html
High Balyett: http://rockartuk.net/c399827.html
Barholm: http://rockartuk.net/c569154.html
Arngask Old Church Yard: http://rockartuk.net/c914157.html
House of Elrig: http://rockartuk.net/c1218913.html
Thanks for the link to the Houxty Cottage, Rich!
And yes, Pebble, I think about a "Cemented into Walls" collection on BRAC.
Cheers,
Jan
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rockartuk
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 13:38
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Grrrrr..... to much impressed......all url's wrong! Here are the working ones:
Glengap: http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c986014.html
High Balyett: http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c399827.html
Barholm: http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c569154.html
Arngask Old Church Yard: http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c914157.html
House of Elrig: http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/c1218913.html
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slumpystones
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 14:00
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The whitewashed one actually reminds me of a brick wall outside the old swimming pool in Redhill in Surrey, where we used to stand with our 2p pieces, grinding holes into the wall - it must have had 200+ holes, all just as big as a 2p piece...
Now that starts me thinking - never having seen anything myself, are all the cups roughly the same size?
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rocknicker
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 14:16
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slumpystones wrote: ... grinding holes into the wall - it must have had 200+ holes, all just as big as a 2p piece...
Now that starts me thinking - never having seen anything myself, are all the cups roughly the same size?
LOL... sometimes, but rarely semi-spherical ;)
where are you located, slumpy?
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rocknicker
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 14:19
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"built into the NE wall of Elrig House, 4.0m above ground level"
blimey! just making a note to add stilts to the RA kit...
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Rockrich
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 14:38
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Slumpy,
funnily enough, a coin theory has been applied to these particular carving because of the cups rather small diameter (2cm), shape and unusual arrangement:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/44553
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rockartuk
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 15:21
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Someone could make you jump with a camera, Pebby!
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slumpystones
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 15:24
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Swanley in Kent, home of the Chav and Thursday-night-knifings at Deja Vu. I hate the place but it's cheap and within reach of the countryside.
This is true, every word http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1137
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slumpystones
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Re: Rock Art in walls
Feb 26, 2007, 15:50
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rocknicker wrote: slumpystones wrote: ... are all the cups roughly the same size?
LOL... sometimes, but rarely semi-spherical ;)
The reason I ask, they all look the size that the sun or moon would look by pinching them between thumb and forefinger and then transferring that spread to the stone.
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