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

surround the petroglyph stone, concealing it from view. There are
about 20 small cupules below the complex engravings, but even these
were hardly noticeable, whereas
a few single cupules on nearby
rocks were instantly visible.
From this emerges a pattern
that is frequently repeated
elsewhere in Galicia. Complex
engravings often appear on rock
panels that are distinctly
separated from nearby simple
FIG. 37: PEDRA DA CHULA.
cupmarked rocks. Moreover, panels
with complex engravings rarely
feature the single standard cupule
that usually is more deeply executed.
A fine example occurs at the Outeiro
do Castro, a hillock south of Vigo,
where complex but most superficially
engraved cup-and-rings occupy a
smooth outcrop at lower level,
whereas rocks higher on the hillock
only show large and deep cupules
(sometimes combined with later
historical engravings). Also at the Os
Campos group near Bayona the same
pattern is repeated. At nearby A
Puexa (Fig. 38) I discovered an
unrecorded outcrop with one clear
FIG. 38: OS CAMPOS.
M. van HOEK: 60 GEOGRAPHY