Showing posts with label rock art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock art. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Loughcrew

panorama from an ancient peat boundary viewing Loughcrew and some satellite tombs

the commanding view of the surrounding landscape and a satellite tomb

the structure of the satellite tomb is clear here

a person on a different mountain perfectly and claustrophobically framed


from the top of Loughcrew

again from the top

looking through the passage of a satellite tomb

ART!

this is the most famous stone


at Loughcrew they rubbed other minerals into the carvings in order to color them and make them stand out more



Saturday, October 18, 2008

Knockroe


Prof O'Suilleahban in lecture: "depending on the rain, we may have to cross a stream or a river"
It was in-between stream and river. it was fast flowing and wet in any case.

Prof: "and there is a short walk with a slight incline"

Knockroe

Smaller satellite tomb


Kerbstones....we've had lectures on the exact measurements of these things

Passage of the Passage Tomb

a shot in which i use my professor for my own aims aka size comparision

smaller passage


See the rock art on the heaviest decorated kerbstone?

see any here?

A closer look, you have to see it now.

Cupmarks, a type of rock art

the chamber


The Grand stone...the only undecorated, pink quartz stone in the chamber and purposely balanced by a different decorated orthostat

look at that rock art!