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Buchanty Hill

Rock Carvings near Fowlis Wester Crieff, Perthshire

All pictures and text copyright © 1999 Martin McCarthy

Large image (646x860 - 130k) Looking southwest over Loch Mealitrodden to the low hill on which two stone circles stand.
Large image (642x920 - 153k) Looking southwest to the fortified Mailquhanzie Hill.
Large image (960x646 - 185k) Detail of the surface, with the compass showing south to be up the picture. A dumbell (two joined cups) can be faintly seen at the bottom-centre.
Large image (992x482 - 113k) Looking across the surface.
Large image (870x612 - 156k) Many cups can be seen, and a dumbell is fairly clear in the centre of the surface.

Buchanty Hill is a couple of miles to the northwest of Fowlis Wester. Carved into a rock are around 30 cup, cup-and-ring and dumbell marks. Many of these are heavily weathered, but some are very deeply carved.

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Find Buchanty Hill (or the nearest known site) at the Megalithic Portal