What is recorded here

Knockroe holds four broken pieces of one large decorated stone, buried in a field wall until a gate widening exposed them. The fragments carry cup marks, concentric circles and radial lines, suggesting a completed panel rather than scattered debris. Someone broke or quarried the original stone, then reused the pieces in an ordinary boundary. The wall hid a ceremonial or marked surface for centuries, waiting for a common job to reveal it.

Three decorated stones were discovered in 2007 by the landowner while carrying out work associated with widening a gate opening. The stones were built into a field wall in close proximity to one another. In 2010 a fourth stone was found. All 4 stones are roughly the same size and originally formed one stone (L 1.6m; Wth 1m). The stones are heavily decorated with cup marks, concentric motiffs and radial lines. (Corlett 2010, 4) See attached screenshot of 3D model of the rock art panel created by Shadows and Stone. Photogrammetric 3D model can be accessed at the following website: https://skfb.ly/Jszy Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 6 January 2012

The rock art at Knockroe likely dates to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, based on the style and context of field boundary placement. Such decorated stones may have had ritual or territorial significance, or marked a sacred landscape feature.

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