Watercolour and crayon
©2021 Charlene Brown
The tallest of this group of standing stones in Kilmartin Glen is four metres high. Two of them are deeply carved with cup and ring marks.
Cup and ring marks are a
form of pre-historic art found on the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and on the Mediterranean coast. And, of course, in the mid-twentieth century paintings of
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Like the Druid’s Stone I
wrote about last week, these cup and ring markings were likely made many centuries after the
stones were originally placed more than four thousand years ago. But not as recently
as the mid-twentieth century.
