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

idge, centring on sites 3 and 4. When the area became more important
they executed engravings on rocks that overlooked that central area.
Later still, the main bulk of motifs at sites 10 and 11 were executed. In
historic times one added crosses and other signs to some of the rocks,
especially site 1, to serve as border markers.
* 1.3.2.3.2 Although the above chronology is only my own careful
interpretation, there are signs that some sites have been reused,
FIGURE 55: NEWLY DISCOVERED PART OF PANEL 2.
probably over a long period. At panel 2 the
more complex engravings are found on a
separate panel, at a lower level than the
other designs, and it moreover features a
superposition of a cup with six rings
overlapping a cup with four rings (Fig. 55).
A possible superimposition also occurs at
site 6 (Fig. 132), where the big set of nine
rings possibly overlaps a cup-and-five-rings.
At site 11 there are clear examples of
differential depths of the engravings,
although there are no clear instances of
overlapping motifs. The dominant cup-andfour-rings
at site 11, however, is
characterised by small and uniform cupules
between the two deeply engraved outer rings
(top of Fig. 57). This contrasts with the
FIG. 56: PANEL 31.
weathered and shallow central cup and its
faint innermost ring. This pattern is repeated at other sites, for
instance at site 31 (Fig. 56) and at nearby O Gorguillon (Fig. 185).
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