<< Our Photo Pages >> Bombie 3 - Rock Art in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway
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Rock ArtSite Name: Bombie 3Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kirkcudbright
Map Ref: NX7250349821
Latitude: 54.826950N Longitude: 3.986188W
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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markj99 visited on 24th May 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Bombie 3 is easier to find than Bombie 2 due to its proximity to the pond fenced off in the NE corner of the field. Bombie 3 is located beside a gorse bush c. 10 yards N from the SW corner of the electric fence round the pond. The rock art panel is at the base of a gorse bush within several yards of the fence. There is a large cup and multiple rings marking centrally placed on a roughly triangular panel. Smaller fainter cup and ring markings in the bottom apexes are covered in turf. I left them covered to protect them.
SolarMegalith visited on 23rd Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3.5
A small rock surface located on the edge of a hilltop, just above a pond. It is decorated with a cup with eight rings and cup with four rings.
Note: the grid reference from Canmore (link below) is inaccurate, the site is located circa 150m to the SE.
Canmore ID 77658 which describes the motifs in a little more detail: "3 cups in total (2 solo); 1 cup surrounded by 8 rings with the quarter section of a 9th ring (a runnel descends from the central cup steeply towards the SE); 1 central ring (complete) is surrounded by 4 further rings (gapped) the outermost possessing a cup (runnel from central ring descends to SE); 1 central ring (complete) is surrounded by a further 4 complete rings (runnel descends ENE)."
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