Black Burn’s Latest Beauty

The "new" Black Burn-22 panel (click to enlarge)

Recently, George Currie found another new and quite interesting panel in the Black Burn area, West of Urlar farm on the South-side of Loch Tay. It looks like this panel was part of  a larger design. Part of the motif -a relative small cup with four rings- has flaked off. A really nice catch, George!

For the other 21 panels -all found by George- see the Black Burn collection on BRAC.

French RA in 2010

Hi Folks,

George Nash asked me to put this invitation of the Clifton Antquarian Club to the Blog. It seems to be good start of the New Year!

Cheers,

Jan

Loch Tay Glory

Latest News: George Currie has seen the Light!

It was a frosty Autumn morning on the South bank of Loch Tay. The fog hung low and no sound was heard. George took his camera out and catched the spooky atmosphere. And there, suddenly, it was; a clear but unreadable Aura!  Was there a person visible? Was it Hutchinson, Anderson, Mackenzie, Stuart? We will never know. Only this story and the photos of the “Glory” survived!

 

News from Galicia

Last week, I received the following from our Galician friend Jorge Guitián:

Hi,
I’m just writing to share with you all my blog about Galician (NW Spain) rock art. I’ve been researching Galician Rock Art since 1999. Nowadays my profession is not related with rock art research, but for more than a decade me and my father published more than 130 new rock art sites, mainly in A Coruña province.  I’m still interested in Rock Art, and we are still making some field research, but our work don’t give us many chances to conduct a systematic research.
Last year I tried to publish a blog, as a way to share my passion about rock art but, once again, work leave me without time to update it regularly. It is stopped by now, but I hope to come back to work soon in the future. Please, feel free to visit the site (Petroglifos de Galicia) and to use the pictures in it in your galleries of world RA. There you’ll find also a brief CV. If you are interested in any of my papers, please let me know. Regards,

I am very happy to accept Jorge’s generous offer and will post some of his great photos to the “Worldwide Rock Art Selection” soon.

Cheers,

Jan

Stan’s latest book

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Last October, Stan Beckensall’s latest book “Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain, Sermons in Stone” was published by Amberley Publishing. Front and back cover are decorated by splendid photos, taken by the well-known Mr Brian Kerr. I already had the opportunity to look inside the book and there are many more fine photographs, among others taken by Stan, George, Brian, Ian and many more. With Stan’s authoritative text and so many photographs, this book should be on every coffee-table soon, even skipping the X-mas tree procedure!

There’s even a bargain buy at Amazon.uk. Enjoy!

BRAG 2010 Meeting

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First announcement:

BRAG 2010 will be held on Saturday 8 May 2010 in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University.

More information >>

Rock Art Reservoir?

Hi Folks,

Recently I received a couple of photographs from Pat Morrissey of some stones on the Eastern shore of Glensherup Reservoir near Glendevon (Perth and Kinross). He would be very happy to have your opinion about the status (man-made or natural) of the cup-like depressions.

For the location of the finding spot click here.

I think the cups on photo A, except for the “hole” on the front-side, come close to the genuine ones. The features in photo B, C and D are likely to be candidates for the description “natural”.

I know that it is hard to make a proper judgement from photographs, but I hope you would give it a try!

Have a nice weekend.

Cheers,

Jan

RA Walk 25th October

Hi Folks,

Received the following from Paul Brown:

http://www.scribd.com/full/19032333?access_key=key-2fbg04xsgdu0rvfrmzlb

Great chance for an Autumn stroll. Have fun and fair weather!

Cheers,

Jan

Briton in Brazil

Hi Folks,

George Nash sent me his article about the rock art (adventure!) in the Serra Capivara, NE Brazil.

It can be viewed on Scribd and downloaded from there as a PDF-file.

Some of his photos, which I received last June, are now in the “Wordwide Rock Art Selection“.

George wrote further: “Those of you interested in looking further at rock-art articles from around the world or anything else, please go to the Current World Archaeology“.

Although not British Rock Art, it is at least Rock Art recorded by a familiar Briton. Thanks George!

Enjoy,

Jan

Rock Articles

Hi Folks,

There is a new kid on the blog!

Recently, Kate Sharpe published a newsletter about anything Rock Art.

The No. 1 issue can be viewed on Scribd.

To make use of the active links in the document you may download the PDF version from Scribd to your computer.

We wish Kate all the best with this great initiative and many readers.

Check it out!

Cheers,

Jan