Barharrow RA creepie-crawlie in black and white.
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The main cup and ring is centre picture.
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I took this photo blurry on purpose. It helps ease out the detail of all the lichen and weathering and gives more of an idea of the general shapes which this deeply carved motif throws out at you.
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The weathered and lichened Barharrow 8. A major cup with one ring has at least seven deep (yellow lichened) runnels running out from it reaching towards another cup.
Although much weathered, these carvings are still fairly deep and their 3D appearance hints at tantalising shapes and interpretations.
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The weathered and lichened Barharrow 8. A major cup with one ring has at least seven deep (yellow lichened) runnels running out from it reaching towards another cup.
Although much weathered, these carvings are still deep and their very 3D appearance hints at tantalising shapes and interpretations.
Image credit: Howburn Digger
“New” rock art panel (Barharrow 9 ?). Two big cups with major runnels with triangle motif on either side. Top right is a dice like pattern of six cups with a prominent double grooved runnel (like a bent arm) running down to another cup.
This panel was an accidental find by myself on 20 October 2011. Rather difficult to photograph as it is under a gorse bush!
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Barharrow 7
Image credit: Howburn Digger/ General S
Barharrow 7
Image credit: Howburn Digger/ General S
Barharrow 7
Image credit: Howburn Digger/ General S
Barharrow 7.
Image credit: Howburn Digger/ General S
© Brian Kerr Photography 2009
Photographed on the 20th September 2009 after helpfull directions from Mr Naddair who discovered this spiral in 1995.
Image credit: Brian Kerr 2009
© Brian Kerr Photography 2009
Photographed on the 20th September 2009 after helpfull directions from Mr Naddair who discovered this spiral in 1995.
Image credit: Brian Kerr 2009
© Brian Kerr Photography 2009
Photographed on the 20th September 2009 after helpfull directions from Mr Naddair who discovered this spiral in 1995.
Image credit: Brian Kerr 2009
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Barharrow Seven and Eight – Saturday 17 September 2011
Barharrow 1-8 is a collection of rock art panels first discovered in 1995. The outcrops form a rough trapezoid shape, whose points extend into fields on either side of a minor road near Twynholm. Canmap helps a lot.
You’ll want to get yourself here. All the panels are within this frame.
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A phone call late last Thursday brought myself and junior down to stay Friday night with holidaying friends a couple of miles from Barharrow.
I rose early today (Sat 17th September 2011) and was joined by General S as we squelched through foot deep mud in search of Barharrow 8. It was easy to find, visible from the road and at the end of a hundred yard long submarine shaped hillock at the road-side of the field.
(Here it is on Google Streetview the little outcrop just to the right of the yellow gorse is the one)
The hillock has many rocky outcrops and exposed faces. The little crag at the end is where you want to head once you navigate the fence and quite a meaty bit of rock art it is too. The lichen (yellow and white) encrusted rock has very deep motifs. A central cup has seven maybe eight deep curving channels radiating out (a bit like a spider shape). There were another couple of likely looking cups on the rock which connected with the radiating lines. A real chunky motif!
The field was also home to twenty five black Galloway bullocks and once they’d spotted us they came trotting over – we nipped smartly to the fence and got over while the bullocks were still plopping through the mud!
Barharrow 7 was next, back across the road, up the little access to the field and through the gate. You pass a couple of little old quarries which have been used for dumping rubble and old bits of corrugated iron in. Keep going. We were looking for the gate in the drystane dyke on our right. When we peered over there was a massive Charolais bull standing right where I wanted to go. After about a quarter of an hour’s waving and distracting we got the monster with the horns and nose-ring to wander off along the edge of the fielddyke till it was far enough down for me to venture in, while General S stood on the dyke keeping watch. I’d had a brief visit to the panel a few months back but had no time to tarry then.
The panel is a beauty. Exquisite. A real treasure. A spiral – at least a foot across – sitting at the base of a gorse bush, staring at your face. If you check out Canmore the directions are quite clear. Just do the paces and look for the prominent outcrop (on the left of an old causeway...). It was a beautiful still Autumn morning and just a perfect day to see this panel. There is something about a spiral... and this one really is a lovely piece of work.
The delay with the bull meant Barharrow 1-6 will have to wait for a week’s holiday in Gatehouse of Fleet mid October. My camera also had a malfunction and my pictures came out a bit blurry, however I also used the camera of General S, but as he’s still down by Twynholm it’ll be a few days before I can post them here.