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Buttony 4

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Notes about name:
 
Buttony or Botany is a field name, a kind of joke after Botany Bay - a place of servitude a long way
away - thus not popular with the farm hands.

Current location: Countryside

Parish: Chatton CP, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England   

Panel type:

  • Art in Landscape – Outcrop

Legal status: Private

Nature of access: Seek Landowner Permission

Access remarks:
 
Approximately 15m to the edge of the plantation.

Wheelchair access: Impossible


Motifs:  Cup with groove cutting through multiple rings: at least 2 foundOval groove enclosing cups: at least 1 foundSingle or multiple cups: at least 4 foundDomino patterns and parallel lines: at least 1 found

Art description:

This panel has two very striking sets of concentric circles on the lower face, and higher there are six domino cups, three cups circled by a groove, and four other cups.

Eight concentric circles, the outer one incomplete, surround a cup from which three radial grooves run. This figure is faintly linked with a cup and seven concentric circles, with two radial grooves. What is very interesting about these is that they are fresh, and that the construction of the 'circles' shows a series of straight lines that make up part of the grooves. There is a large cup and two small ones on the same surface.

 

 
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