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Rock ArtSite Name: Knock Rock Art (1)
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Newton Stewart Nearest Village: Monreith
Map Ref: NX36454012 Landranger Map Number: 83
Latitude: 54.729384N Longitude: 4.541384W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

4 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0	No data.

4 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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markj99 visited on 27th Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The cup marked rock is much easier to spot than the hidden markings on the otter stone plinth. I hadn't noticed them on several previous visits.

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**Knock Rock Art (1)** submitted by rockartuk : Knock 1, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway. Grid Ref: NX 3645 4012. Take the small road from the A747, 1km ESE of Monreith, to Golfcourse 'The Lag'. On the right side, just after the cattlegrid, there is a rocky hillock with an Otter statue on top. The motifs are just below the statue on a small ledge. There is public access. A single left hand spiral, 17cm in diameter and a 'grid' compr... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rock Art in Dumfries and Galloway

Knock 1- Take the small road from the A747, 1km ESE of Monreith, to Golfcourse 'The Lag'. On the right side, just after the cattlegrid, there is a rocky hillock with an Otter statue on top. The motifs are just below the statue on a small ledge. There is public access. A single left hand spiral, 17cm in diameter and a 'grid' comprising 6 near-rectangular squares of 16 x 13 cm. It is claimed that these motifs are the nearest (125m) to the sea in Great Britain.

Canmore ID 62763, which has some glorious photographs of these rocks with otters, and add that there are "3 natural rocks, one bearing a cup mark with 5 concentric rings and 8 and 10 yds away 2 more rocks each with 30 cup marks."
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