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Rock ArtSite Name: Cairnholy 6Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Gatehouse of Fleet Nearest Village: Carsluith
Map Ref: NX51855496
Latitude: 54.867410N Longitude: 4.310046W
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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Rock Art in Dumfries and Galloway
The simplest approach is from the north end of the public road at 54.865056, -4.297384 (where one, or with care two vehicles can be parked), across a field to the west (it seems to me to have plenty of ancient piled stone features), across a narrow stream, and up the open hillside. I have found the farmers to be friendly, but there is a red-faced gamekeeper who is not.
Cairnholy 6 consists of cup and ring markings on what is either a large recumbent stone, or bedrock, at the bottom of a not very successful 30cm deep drainage ditch running parallel to the east-west field boundary wall. I located the site by reference to the walls marked on the OS 1:25000 map only, but what first caught my attention was the longer of two rocks on the north bank of the ditch. Not surprisingly weed has grown over and around the cup and ring markings. It's tempting to think that there might be much more art covered by soil either side of the ditch.
This cup and ring marked rock is recorded as Canmore ID 63737 which says they detected three cups with one ring each and five plain cups. It's location is described as being: "on the N side of a drainage ditch in rough pasture, about 10m N of a field dyke and some 150m ENE of a sheepfold. The surface of the stone, which is partly hidden by turf, measures 2m in length from ENE to WSW by 0.7m in breadth."
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