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Re: Slaggyford Stones .

Sep 13, 2011, 13:56

tiompan wrote:

Howburn Digger wrote:

tiompan wrote:

Last year a dry stone waller working near Carnwath discovered a genuine marked rock in a dyke in he was working on . He made no claim that his job gave him an understanding of rock art any more than a typist had a greater understanding of etmyology because of theirs .

The find was made at Dunsyre. The finder was Mr Austen Reid, local drystaner and discoverer of South Lanarkshire's third ever piece of Rock Art. The others pieces being from Wester Yardhouses and Fernigair.

http://www.biggararchaeology.org.uk/news20_170810.shtml

And like their West Lothian neighbours Lamancha and Crosswood they are all ornate .

I stopped off at Crosswood earlier this year to visit the carvings. Those county boundaries are a nuisance (hmm - there's a West Lothian question for us eh?). Another few hundred metres and those carvings would have been South Lanarkshire's - and we would have four bits of RA!I should have taken some more photos for TMA . There are only a couple on here and there were some much better photographic examples on Jan and Gus's wonderful and much missed website.
Lamancha is, of course, in the National Museum in Edinburgh nowadays and was originally found tucked into an awkward corner of the Scottish Borders now only famed for its Turnip Festival.

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