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Fowberry
Mains / Fowberry Park 'b'. (ERA-194). The carvings on this page are
all to be found within a few metres of each other but it is the outcrop
above that catches the eye first. It consists of 113 cups arranged in
two lines that are neither quite straight nor parallel, in fact the
two lines diverge slightly at the near end of the photograph. The two
lines are joined together at this end by a line of three cups while
5 cups at the other end may be the start of another line that was abandoned.
This area of Fowberry Park has formerly been quarried for stone, the
edge of the quarry can be seen at the upper right of the picture showing
how close the carving came to being destroyed and we can only wonder
if other carvings have been lost. It also appears to be a favourite
haunt of sheep and the carvings are now starting to disappear under
a layer of droppings. Carving 'c' is at the centre top of the photograph.
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'c' (ERA-193). A slightly raised dome of rock has 7 cup marks with a further
cup just above and partly filled with earth and grass. |
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'a' (ERA-192). The carvings above and below stand right on the edge of
the quarry. Carving 'a' above has four cups enclosed by a flattened oval
groove with a further groove leading off towards the edge of the rock.
Three other grooves linked at one end also seem to radiate from the centre
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Carving
'e' (ERA-199). A central cup has five worn rings and a groove running
through its centre linking it to another more defined motif (above and
to the left) that consists of a cup with 2 rings and a groove running
a short distance down the face of the rock. In front of the larger carving
are three small cup and single ring motifs, the rock has at least 2
other cup and single rings as well as about a dozen other cups across
its surface.
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Carving
'i' (ERA-195). It's strange what the eye can spot or sometimes completely
miss. I thought this was a different carving and recognised a cup with
a pair of faint rings (marked with water) but failed to spot the much
larger carving to the right until I looked at the photograph. A shallow
cup towards the right edge of the rock has 5 faint rings and a long
groove that runs towards the camera almost parallel with the visible
edge.
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