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Image of Milltown (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by CianMcLiam

26-02-2012

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2012

CianMcLiam Feb 26, 2012

Closer shot showing up the unusually long radiating grooves bisecting an oval shaped motif with offset cupmark.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Sep 12, 2007

Most of the main group of motifs on this long bulky stone. Along the top ridge is a series of cup and rings with quite substantial cups that were difficult to bring up due to their position.

Image credit: Ken Williams/ShadowsandStone.com 2007

CianMcLiam Sep 12, 2007

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Milltown

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art

CianMcLiam Sep 12, 2007

Incorrectly marked on the other side of the road (or maybe there is another panel there which I failed to locate), this large stone sits in a field beside a large B&B (’The Milestone’) and can be seen from the road and the large standing stone that now sits in the garden of the B&B.

It has been suggested that the stone once stood upright and on first sight it does look like a fallen menhir. Another smaller stone lies a few paces away so it may have made a two-stone row, another possibility is the other large standing stones close by all formed part of a longer stone row that would have been very impressive.

The stone is arrow shaped and most of the markings are near the broad end with just a single cup and ring near the point. The stone is about 4-5m in length, 2m wide and 1.5m high as it presently sits.

If the carvings were done while or before the stone stood, the radiating grooves and gutters (parrallel with each other) would have run across rather than up or down the stone which seems ‘wrong’. As the stone now sits, they run down the sloping surface from the cup and rings which are mostly along the top ridge and part of the way down the slope.