What is recorded here

Kealduff Upper holds two clean cupmarks and a small cluster of pickmarks on a smooth boulder, set twenty-three metres from another rock art site in rocky mountain heath. The stone faces north above the Behy river valley, where Seefin and Droum Mountains rise in the distance. Hut sites abut a drystone wall eight metres away, suggesting people lived near this marked rock. The repeated shapes imply more than random damage, yet their exact meaning remains unknown.

In rocky mountain heath (197m OD), on a NE-facing slope, c. 23m to SSE of rock art site (KE071-NEW76). Excellent views of Behy river valley to NE with Seefin and Droum Mountains in background. A very smooth and fractured boulder (dims. 1.25m NE-SW; 0.82m NW-SE; H 0.5m at SW) which is subrectangular in plan. It has a subrectangular decorated surface (dims. 1.1m NE-SW; 0.8m NW-SE) with a N-facing aspect. The motifs consist of two picked cupmarks (diam. 4cm; D 2mm) of similar size and form: one in the centre and one in SE area of decorated surface. A cluster (overall dims. 4cm x 4cm) of pickmarks (range diam. 4-5mm; D 2mm) are located at E edge of decorated surface. A random scatter of pockmarks (range diam. 1-1.5cm; D 3-4mm) and pickmarks (diam. 5cm; D 2mm) across stone surface do not appear to have any discernible pattern. Hut sites abutting drystone field wall (long-axis NE-SW) are c. 8m to SW. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 January 2018

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