What is recorded here

Two figures appeared when dynamite split the lower ridge near Magheranaul, revealing a large disc-cup and a small cup-mark inside an incomplete oval ring. They sat close to the scarp on rock sloping gently eastward, waiting for human eyes after occupying that place since before memory. The quarrymen struck only to take stone, yet they broke open a chamber where ancient hands had drawn circles in hard rock. What those circles meant to the people who made them has vanished, but the stones still hold the shape of that forgotten gesture.

Described by Van Hoek as 'A few metres to the SW of DON 23 (DG004-065) is another, lower ridge, excavated in the same way, thereby revealing a few engravings. This E group consists of only two figures. There is large disc-cup and a small cup-mark encircled by an oval incomplete ring. Both features are very close to the scarp on a part of the rock which slopes 7 degrees to the E (fig. 8F). This area of rock outcrop had been blown up with dynamite for quarrying by 1988 (Van Hoek 1988, 47). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010

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