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Click on the photos above for full size and detail shots.
This is the inner face of stone 11, in 1995
Nick Best and Neil Stevenson, students at Newcastle University
photographed a spiral carving on this stone. This discovery seems to have
prompted the scrutiny of the other
stones that resulted in the discovery of the other rock art at Castlerigg.
We have only seen a drawing of this carving (1), and this was only a section of
the stone with no edge indication.
The spiral is shown with three oblique lines running past it tangentially at
roughly 10 o'clock, it seems likely that these are
the deep parallel lines that can be seen on the upper left side of the
stone in the middle photo above. The scale on the
published drawing is confusing as it would give the spiral a diameter of over
2m, this is obviously an error as the
stone is only 1m wide.
There are photos of the stone in natural light and also two shots with low angle
illumination to show surface features.
The low angle shots have the illumination axis at roughly 90 degrees to each
other which should help to highlight any
carvings regardless of their orientation.
We could not make out a spiral in any of the photos we took, the shots above are
the ones we thought showed the
stone surface features best.
1. Beckensall, S. British Prehistoric Rock Art, p125-6, Tempus Publishing, 1999