Rock Art, AN LÓTHAR

Rock Art in Ireland, dating from the Bronze Age

In a modern field clearance cairn immediately S of the fence enclosing Loher Fort, the upper surface of a boulder in this cairn which is inscribed with five cupmarks as well as picked lines and clusters of picking is visible some 1.2m above ground level. The flat textured upper surface of the sandstone boulder is crescent shaped at its S edge and straight along its N edge, measuring 1.8m long E/W and up to 0.63m wide N/S along its mid-point, tapering to 0.3m wide at W and 0.23m wide at E. The long axis of the upper surface slopes upwards to NE, the short axis upwards to NNW. Some 7 fine veins of quartz concentrated on the W end of the boulder run N/S across the upper surface and continue down the side of the boulder at S, the largest vein being located off-centre, some 0.95m from the E end of the boulder. The two most readily visible cupmarks are located either side of the off-centre quartz vein, the lower cupmark (#1: diam. 0.06m, D. 8mm) at E, the most symmetrically-shaped and most prominent of the features on this panel, is located 0.34m down from the N edge and 0.18m E of this vein. The second most visible cupmark (#2: diam. 0.095m, D. 11mm) at W, is located 0.2m down from the N edge and 0.15m W of this vein. Picking concentrated N of the most prominent cupmark (#1) continues towards N for approx. 0.1m to (#3) a sub-circular area of picking (diam. 0.07m, D. 2–4mm) conjoined

Period:
Bronze Age

Coordinates:
51.79°N, 10.17°W

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