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

not mean that this has been intended to be so. It is equally possible
that Roughting Linn only marks the pass in the sandstone ridge (which
is more conform observations at other rock art groups), or became a
ritual centre for another, still obscure reason. It is moreover, strange
that the sandstone hills between Roughting Linn and Doddington
(Doddington Northmoor in Fig. 31) have no rock art, whereas they
offer far better views across the basin from extensive outcrops near
the escarpment.
FIG. 34: MILFIELD LAKE AND ITS SURROUNDING ROCK ART.
* 1.2.3.3.3.1 What was so attractive in the Milfield Basin ? It
is true that the basin has a more than average number of prehistoric
structures (Fig. 34), mainly henges, but it remains most uncertain
whether these henges are contemporary or even culturally related to
the neighbouring cup-and-ring art. Such contemporaneity is too easily
taken for granted. Notably, only one stone with one cupule was found in
one of these henges. The henge which provided a radio-carbon date of
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