Rock art

The National Monuments Service's description

In mountain heath (170m OD), on a NE-facing slope, to NW of stream. Good views overlooking Behy River valley to NE and overlooked by mountains SE->W->NW. A smooth and fractured sandstone (dims. 2.10m NE-SW; 0.94m NW-SE; max. H 0.76m at N) which is subrectangular in plan. It has an irregular decorated surface (dims. 0.90m NE-SW; 0.90m NW-SE) with a sharp SE-facing aspect. The rock art design upon this stone is highly decorative, albeit very faint and weathered. The pattern consists of a long, central curvilinear groove (L 1.05m; Wth 1.5-2.5cm; D 4mm) with four shorter off-shoot curvilinear grooves to N side. The main groove terminates in the largest cupmark (dims. 7cm x 8cm; D 4mm) and two off-shoot grooves finish in smaller cupmarks; two others finish in a cup-and-one-ring motif. The southern-most of the cup-and-ring motifs (diam. 10cm; cupmark diam. 5cm; D 6mm; ring Wth 1.5cm; D 3mm) is best preserved. A single cup-and-one ring motif and a tiny cupmark are adjacent to S of the central curvilinear groove. A further two cupmarks with radial grooves are also adjacent to S. Rock art (KE071-184----) is c. 2.5m to S.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 26 January 2018