<< Our Photo Pages >> Townhead - Rock Art in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway
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Rock ArtSite Name: Townhead Alternative Name: Grange HillCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kirkcudbright Nearest Village: Townhead
Map Ref: NX69644705
Latitude: 54.801327N Longitude: 4.029475W
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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SolarMegalith visited on 20th Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Among numerous panels of Townhead group only the main one is not covered over with turf. The motifs are well-preserved and connected with each other by channels, the largest one is a somewhat angular (reminding of Weetwood Moor 3a) cup with five rings. Among other interesting motifs there is an oval with two cup-marks inside and an occulus (two integrated cup-and-ring marks forming shape of eight). Just to the east there is a smaller rock surface with two cup-and-ring marks.
Not far from there is a turf-covered panel with well-preserved rosette.
For more information see Canmore entry and Canmore ID 63900 which says there are four sets of cup and ring marks on a few flat outcrops of rock "in a field N of Townhead Plantation. They are (i) cup and 2 rings and 2 cups; (ii) cup and faint ring and a dumb-bell; (iii) 2 cup-and-one-ring, 3 cups and other, possibly natural, marks; (iv) a cup and irregular groove partly enclosing it."
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