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<< Our Photo Pages >> Whitehill 3 - Rock Art in Scotland in East Dunbartonshire

Submitted by SolarMegalith on Saturday, 21 January 2017  Page Views: 2989

Rock ArtSite Name: Whitehill 3
Country: Scotland County: East Dunbartonshire Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Clydebank
Map Ref: NS51157386
Latitude: 55.934684N  Longitude: 4.384392W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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Whitehill 3
Whitehill 3 submitted by SolarMegalith : Cup-and-ring mark on Whitehill 3 panel seen in the artificial lighting (photo taken on September 2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in East Dunbartonshire

On a horizontal rock surface constituting part of a rocky crag there is a cup-and-ring mark with four rings. Currently it is difficult to distinguish due to lichen.

Canmore entry.

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Whitehill 3
Whitehill 3 submitted by Antonine : Iron Age? smelt with gold and ropework. Found by metal detector near here in 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitehill 3
Whitehill 3 submitted by redmacgregor : Site in East Dunbartonshire Scotland This photo was taken in 1997. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitehill 3
Whitehill 3 submitted by SolarMegalith : Close-up of the cup-and-ring mark on Whitehill 3 panel (photo taken on September 2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Whitehill 3
Whitehill 3 submitted by SolarMegalith : A general view of Whitehill 3 panel (photo taken on September 2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NS5173 : Rock face near Whitehill by Lairich Rig
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NS5173 : Rock face detail by Lairich Rig
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NS5173 : Cup-marked rock at Whitehills by Lairich Rig
by Lairich Rig
©2015(licence)
NS5173 : Cup-mark on rock by Lairich Rig
by Lairich Rig
©2015(licence)
NS5173 : The edge of the woods by Lairich Rig
by Lairich Rig
©2015(licence)

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 192m NE 49° Whitehill 4* Rock Art (NS51307398)
 285m NE 51° Whitehill 5* Rock Art (NS51387403)
 684m W 281° Cochno Crags* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (NS50487401)
 698m W 270° The Cochno Stone* Rock Art (NS50457388)
 809m W 272° Auchnacraig Stone Circle* Stone Circle (NS50347391)
 890m WSW 252° Auchnacraig 4* Rock Art (NS50297362)
 892m WSW 254° Auchnacraig 1* Rock Art (NS50287365)
 1.1km WSW 254° Auchnacraig 5* Rock Art (NS501736)
 1.8km SE 131° Castlehill Fort (Bearsden)* Hillfort (NS5248272614)
 2.0km SW 234° Antonine Wall remains below Golden Hill* Stone Fort or Dun (NS49467274)
 2.0km SW 232° Golden Hill Roman Fort* Stone Fort or Dun (NS49517265)
 3.9km ESE 115° Bearsden Roman Bath-house* Stone Fort or Dun (NS54627208)
 4.3km N 7° Craigenkirn (New Kilpatrick) Cairn (NS5183978157)
 4.8km ESE 107° Antonine Wall, New Kilpatrick Cemetery* Misc. Earthwork (NS557723)
 4.9km WSW 247° Kilpatrick Crannog Crannog (NS4658172121)
 5.0km NE 47° Echo Stone (Mugdock) Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (NS54937710)
 5.6km ENE 59° Middleton Row Stone Row / Alignment (NS561766)
 5.7km WSW 258° Erskine Bridge Crannog Crannog (NS4548272901)
 5.8km WSW 251° Erskine Park* Ancient Village or Settlement (NS45607220)
 6.3km NNE 14° Craigmore Cottage Standing Stones (NS529799)
 6.4km W 273° Hill of Dun* Hillfort (NS44807439)
 6.6km NE 55° Loch Ardinning (Mugdock) Rock Art (NS567775)
 7.1km NNW 342° The Whangie* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (NS49238066)
 7.2km ENE 71° Craigmaddie Muir 2 (Baldernock) Cairn (NS5876)
 7.2km NNE 15° Blanefield* Stone Row / Alignment (NS53288072)
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Re: Whitehill 3 by Antonine on Sunday, 04 February 2024
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www.heraldscotland.com/news/24076234.save-cochno-road-fight-battery-storage-site/
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Re: Whitehill 3 by Antonine on Sunday, 04 February 2024
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These stones are under direct threat by development of lithium battery storage facility.
Please sign the petition
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Use the QR code on this image for link to suggested objection letter. Deadline is 21st February 2024
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Faifley Rocks excavations 2019 by Andy B on Monday, 25 November 2019
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This is a summary account of the excavations at Whitehill 3, 4 and 5 rock art panels between 13th and 19th August 2019. This report was written with co-director, Yvonne Robertson. This is a brief and provisional account, with a more detailed publication to follow in the future.

Faifley Rocks! is a project researching prehistoric rock art sites to the north of Faifley, Clydebank, West (and as it turns out East) Dunbartonshire, using excavation, survey, oral history and archival research. The largest rock art site in the area, the Cochno Stone [see nearby sites list], has received the most attention, but sits within a small group of c 16 rock art panels. Some of these sites were identified in the late nineteenth century, others through more recent fieldwork, but no comprehensive work has been done on any of these sites since Ronald Morris’s fieldwork in the 1960s and 1970s.

This was the second excavation as part of the project, following work at Auchnacraig in June 2019. The summary report of this excavation includes some more background on the project here.
https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/faifley-rocks-ac19/

Whitehill 2019 excavations

In August 2019, excavation took place around three of the rock art sites in the area, sites known as Whitehill 3, 4 and 5 in Scotland’s Rock Art Project (ScRAP) database. These outcrops are situated within a small area of woodland amidst arable fields immediately to the northeast of Whitehill Farm and north of Law Farm on a prominent landscape position with extensive views to the south. The outcrops are sedimentary, being gritstone or sandstone. They are located around NS 5138 7403 and are listed in Canmore.

Two of these sites were first recorded in the 1960s by Morris unlike the Auchnacraig sites which were first documented in the late nineteenth century. Morris documented these in his 1981 book The prehistoric rock-art of southern Scotland (except Argyll and Galloway). The numbering system he used is slightly different to the system adopted here; we are adopting the ScRAP nomenclature.

Whitehill 3 is the most extensive of the panels and located on the edge of an escarpment. Morris called this site Whitehill 5 (as do we!). It was initially briefly documented in the Morris and Bailey gazetteer (1967, 161) as a hilltop or break of slope location decorated with 25 cups and a few cups-with-rings.

More here
https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/faifley-rocks-ac19/

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