Cairnholy 01 & 02

Nearest town:
Gatehouse Of Fleet (9km ENE)
OS reference:
NX518539
OS sheet:
83
Latitude:
54° 51' 27.74 N
Longitude:
4° 18' 32.53 W
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Images

Image of Cairnholy 01 & 02 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by markj99

Cup Carvings on Cairnholy 2 Cup Carved N Portal viewed from SW.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Apr 7, 2025
Image of Cairnholy 01 & 02 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by markj99

Cup Carvings on Top Half of Cairnholy 2 Cup Carved N Portal viewed from SW.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Apr 7, 2025
Image of Cairnholy 01 & 02 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by markj99

Cup Carvings on S & E Faces of Cairnholy 2 N Portal Carved Stone viewed from ESE. (21.06.21)

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Mar 30, 2025
Image of Cairnholy 01 & 02 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by markj99

Cup Carvings on E Face of Cairnholy 2 N Portal Carved Stone viewed from ESE. (21.06.21)

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Mar 29, 2025
Image of Cairnholy 01 & 02 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

South of the chamber (see arrow) is a greywacke slab which might have been a cover-slab. On it is a very weathered and partly flaked-off cup and five rings.

rockartuk
rockartuk Apr 12, 2003
Image of Cairnholy 01 & 02 (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

A very faint cup and five rings on a almost flat laying stone on the left side behind the facade. The carving can only be seen in the right sunlight around noon, after wetting the stone with (local!) water. The last black&white photo of the carving was published -as “Cairnholy 2”- in Ronald W.B. Morris’ book “Rock Art of Galloway & The Isle of Man” (Blandford, 1979), p. 74.

rockartuk
rockartuk Apr 12, 2003

Articles

Cairnholy 01 & 02

Vicster
Vicster Nov 7, 2004

If you wander up past Cairnholy 1&2 and take a right past the old barn with no roof, there is a gate ahead. In the field are a number of what I refer to as “sheep cairns”, the remains of dead sheep with a pile of rocks and boulders on top of them. Fron the gate you can see three smallish ones and then another 2 larger ones, further to the left.

The 3rd small one to the left has a largish stone placed near the top and clearly has cup and ring marks on it. Someone has also made out the outline of a fish, although I couldn’t see it – perhaps you need a day when the sun is casting some shadow to identify it?

No idea where the stone came from originally though....

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Rock Art found? 4
rocknicker
rocknicker
Jul 2004

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