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Rock ArtSite Name: Blackshaw Rock Art Alternative Name: Blackshaw QuarryCountry: Scotland County: North Ayrshire Type: Rock Art
Map Ref: NS23104834
Latitude: 55.696164N Longitude: 4.816254W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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This area of rock, measuring 13.5m in length by 6m broad at one end, and 0.9m broad at the other, is sculptured with over 300 cup marks, and a variety of cup-and-rings, spirals, and other marks.Parts of shale rings were found by Boyd when cleaning soil from crevices in the rock. Two-thirds of one ring, measuring 125mm in external diameter and 16mm thick, with a perforation 37mm in diameter, was donated by him to the NMAS (Acc. No. FN 155).
In 1956 the rock was mostly overgrown with turf, but in 1982 this much weathered rock had been fenced off and de-turfed, so that its appearance and dimensions were roughly as originally described, only some detail along the southern strip of the rock remaining obscured.
Adjacent to the south east end of this rock, on the other side of a field wall, is another flat rock surface, exposed area roughly 5 by 2m bearing at least two cup marks, 3 to 5 cm in diameter.
Text adapted from Canmore ID 41006.
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