Glasvaar

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Glasvaar Farm

The cup-and-ring markings of Glasvaar at Kilmartin in Scotland consist of six groups around in the fields around the eponymous Glasvaar Farm lie.

  1. In a field 200 m from Glasvaar Farm, there are around 15 bowls between 90 and 30 mm in diameter on the tip of a prominent, irregular boulder. To the northeast of it there are three bowls on a rock outcrop .
  2. A boulder with cup and ring markings has been integrated into the foundation of a wall that surrounds the courtyard garden. The decoration on the north side of the wall includes three cups with individual rings (one incomplete), about 24 round or oval simple cups (two with rings), a large oval sign and an unusual row of gutters. The boulder may have been removed from a large cairn 90 m to the south.
  3. Immediately to the south is a rock slab with two weathered bowls and two small depressions.
  4. The next set of markers is on a humped outcrop immediately west of the trail that runs northeast of Glasvaar Farm. The outcrop has two separate ornate surfaces, one on the ridge and the other on a lower level to the east.
    On the ridge there are the weathered remains of seven cups with individual rings, 40 cups, three of which have multiple rings, and a bowl. The lower-lying decoration is more intricate and for the most part not weathered, as it is usually covered with lawn. The main marking is a cup with a single ring and seven ring segments. It is accompanied by a series of cups, some with single rings and some with double rings.
  5. Seven meters away, on the east side of the ravine, there is a sloping rock slab with weathered cups, individual rings and gutters, a simple cup with gutters, one cup lies in a depression, two cups are connected by two gutters to form a cartridge and seven simple ones Bowl.
  6. There are four bowls on a rock slab 6.5 m east of the fifth group.

literature

  • The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: Kilmartin. Prehistoric & early historic monuments (= An inventory of the monuments extracted from Argyll. Vol. 6). The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-1-902419-03-9 , p. 28.
  • Marion Campbell, Mary LS Sandeman: Mid Argyll: A Field Survey of the historic and prehistoric Monuments. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 95, 1961/1962, ISSN  0081-1564 , pp. 1-125, ( online ).

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Coordinates: 56 ° 9 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 5 ° 24 ′ 29.4 ″  W.