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<< Our Photo Pages >> Stronach Ridge Rock Art - Rock Art in Scotland in Isle of Arran

Submitted by durhamnature on Monday, 24 September 2012  Page Views: 6657

Rock ArtSite Name: Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Arran Type: Rock Art

Map Ref: NS00303636
Latitude: 55.579837N  Longitude: 5.16974W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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drolaf visited on 8th May 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 A 'wow' for rock carving afficionados. a perfect site to visit on a rainy day on Arran. The unusual 'lollypops' differ from the usual cup and concentric rings elsewhere.

samricemonkey visited on 1st Apr 2009 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The site is in amongst a dense conifer plantation. It was easily accessible by following a rough foresters track through the trees. The rock art was stunning! Half exposed from a boggy puddle. The fact that it lay so neglected and hidden away in the woods made it feel really special.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3.5

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by samricemonkey : Photo of cup-and-ring marks near Brodick, Arran (Stronach Ridge). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock art discovered early in 1900s, and originally illustrated in "The Book of Arran". In Stronach Wood. The site was ploughed and planted with conifers and the rock art not accessible. But fortunately it is now as part of Historic Environment Scotland's Rock Art Project.

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Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by Flickr : Isle of Arran petroglyphs A 19th century article about the site : archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=.... The site in Stronach Wood Brodick, will be part of Scotland's Rock Art Project, directed by 'Historic Environment Scotland' . Image copyright: AJ Mitchell (Andrew Mitchell), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by F : Cups and rings. Isle of Arran. The fact that the stone is tilting to the ground does not come over well in this montage of photographs. Possibly Neolithic final, probably Bronze age. Six shots, with an archive Pentax lens on a K-50. 72 A 19th century article about the site : archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=.... The site in Stronach Wood Brodick, ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by Aska : A total view. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by Flickr : Cups and rings : Arran Ardrossan near Brodick on the Isle of Arran. Late Neolithic / bronze age. Whilst the style differs from the Galloway cups and rings further south east, and the northern England cup and ring petroglyphs, the dialogue of cups interfaced with circles and canals (tails) is recognizable between the sites, and indeed carries on with relations carved as far away as Galice in... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by durhamnature : Photographs of rock art, from "The book of Arran" by J A Balfour 1910 via archive.org

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by durhamnature : View of rock art, from "The book of Arran" by J A Balfour 1910 via archive.org

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by durhamnature : Detail of rock art, from "The book of Arran" by J A Balfour 1910 via archive.org

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by durhamnature

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by durhamnature

Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by durhamnature : Plan of rock art, from "The book of Arran" by J A Balfour 1910 via archive.org

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Re: Stronach Ridge Rock Art by samricemonkey on Sunday, 01 September 2013
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In 2009 I took a short walk out of Brodick to look for the cup-and-ring marked rocks shown on the 1:50000 Landranger map. I had never seen cup-and-ring marks before. I located the site in amongst a dense conifer plantation. It was easily accessible by following a rough foresters track through the trees. The rock art was stunning! Half exposed from a boggy puddle. The fact that it lay so neglected and hidden away in the woods made it feel really special. The beautiful slime-covered anthropomorphic bas-reliefs really had an impact on me. I took several photos. I'll upload them if I can figure out how. Several years later I saw images of astoundingly similar rock art in Mozambique in an in-flight magazine!
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