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Howburn Digger
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Re: Tappoch Broch, Scotland.
Jun 05, 2015, 20:48
Clash wrote:
Hi, the historian went up last night and this is his reply to me via email this morning....

Quote "Ken,
I took a stroll up to the broch at 9pm last night and found the carved stone.

It is located on the outermost stone of the entrance passage on the east side. The carving is quite small and neat and reasonably executed.

It would certainly have been noticed during the original discovery and excavation of the broch in 1864 and I’m pretty certain that it is of recent origin. It looks like a monogram composed of the letters C E (or R) and A. All the best," Unquote

Cheers Ken


If it had been noticed during the original discovery and excavation it is quite certain that they would have mentioned it. And they don't seem to have mentioned it. So they probably didn't notice it (or it wasn't there then).

New carvings and rock art are discovered all the time here in Scotland (just look at Tiompan's amazing discoveries and the fab photos he posts here on TMA). Just because no-one's noticed it before or a guy from Falkirk Museum (is he a rock art specialist?) doesn't know what it is... doesn't mean it it's modern (though it could be..).

Stick with it. Keep going. Keep looking. Keep taking pictures. Keep posting on here.

Some years back, after I'd discovered some lovely RA which no-one had noticed before, an archaeologist told me "When people visit a site, they know what they are going to see. So they don't look for anything else... so keep looking. Keep a fresh pair of eyes!"
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