Maarten van Hoek The Geography of Cup-and-Ring ... - StoneWatch

impossible that these two sites ever were intervisible. The line
between Corby Crags and Lemmington Wood is doubtful, but could not
be checked by me because of the vegetation. The same applies for a
possible line between Lamp Hill and Lemmington Wood.
Similarly, the suggested lines from the Caller Crag site to the Corby
Crags group (Fig. 26b) are most doubtful because of intervening higher
ground. Lines of intervisibility in this area should therefore not be
taken for granted too easily. Possibly it is mainly the commanding view
across settled areas or migratory routes (compare the situation at
Cairnbaan) that attracted the manufacturers of the petroglyphs.
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Further south is a
number of linear
groups near Rothbury.
However, no
intervisibility exists
between Millstone Burn
and Rothbury because
map
of an intervening ridge
of sandstone hills. This
probably caused people
migrating from the
south (open arrows in
Fig. 28) to deviate
around the ridge. Rock
art seems to overlook
most of these routes,
map
whereas the ridge
itself is bereft of rock
art, save one important
exception as especially
the two Millstone Burn
groups are situated on
either side of a
convenient pass (P in
Fig. 26b) through the
ridge. Surprisingly,
Bradley fails to mark
FIGURE 28: THE ROTHBURY GROUP. this important pass
(lowest point at 190 m) on his map. Again it is remarkable that such an
entrance is marked by two groups on either side of the pass, the
Millstone Burn group and the group at Snook Bank. This recalls the
situation at Poltalloch and Loch Fyne in Scotland, but it will also be
noted elsewhere in Europe, for instance at Elvas in the Alps, Muros in
Galicia, Norrköping in Sweden.
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