The Site, the Panels and some Photos, August 2006
This page is part of the Castleton Collection
on the British Rock Art Collection (BRAC)
Leslie Gray (greywether on TMA) published an overview of the Castleton sites on TMA .
We use his article as a base for further information on the panels including some photos of the main motifs.
The main name (in bold) is the Alternative Name as used in Canmore database.
[CEN] is the number used by Morris in The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland, BAR 86, 1981. This is also the start of some confusion.
For instance: Alternative named "Castleton-7" is [CEN 6] in Morris' book.
Tiompan visited the site in August 2006 and shoot a nice serie of photos for BRAC.
However, it isn't clear yet to what panel number some of his photos belong.
Edited Canmap with panel-numbers and NMRS sitenumbers:
Castleton 1 [CEN 1] NE of the farm; NS88NE 3; NS 8587 8840; cup and five rings (bruce, morris, baily, rcahms).
Castleton 1b, NE of the farm; NS88NE 52; NS 8589 8839; two small cups (mvh).
[No photo available]
Castleton 2 [CEN 2] NE of the farm; NS88NE 9; NS 85818 88303 (PGS-reading by greywether); natural basin, 'first state' of single ring (morris, os, rcahms).
Castleton 2b, NE of the farm; NS88NE 53; NS 8581 8831; two large disc cups, roughly pocked, (mvh).
[No photo available]
Castleton 3 (Alt. name just: Castleton) [CEN 3] SE of the farm; NS88NE 10; NS 85710 87969 (PGS-reding by greywether); cup and five rings (morris, os).
Castleton 4 [CEN 4] NW of the farm; NS88NE 11; NS 8552 8816; cup and four rings, two ellipses with central cups (morris, os, rc, mvh).
Castleton 5 [CEN 5] NW of the farm; NS88NE 14; NS 8554 8811; cup and five rings (morris, os, rc, morris&mvh).
Castleton 6, SE of the farm; NS88NE 15; NS 857 878; cups and cups with single rings.
Castleton 7, [CEN 6] NE of the farm; NS88NE 12; NS 8598 8825; cups some with rings, some cups connected by channels (morris, os, rc).
[No photo available]
Castleton 7abc, NW of the farm; NS88NE 30; NS 85523 88185 (7a; GPS-reading by greywether, very different from Canmore); cup and nine rings (mvh, morris).
Castleton 7d, NE of the farm; NS88NE 54; NS 8581 8819; one cupmark (mvh).
[No photo available]
Castleton 8, S of the farm; NN88NE 31, NS 857 878; three cups with three rings and some doutfull cups (morris).
[No photo available]
Castleton .. SE of the farm, NS88NE 25; NS 8615 8771; cup with one ring, three unfinshed millstones (rc).
[No photo available]
Castleton .. SE of the farm, NS88NE 26, NS 8602 8771; cups with four rings, three rings without cup, etc. (rc).
[No photo available]
Some photos by Tiompan, taken in August 2006, but not yet clear to which panel they belong
Unk-1:
Unk-2:
Unk-3:
Unk-4:
Unk-5:
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