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Drawing by Stan Beckensall
(Late 20th Century)

Drawing of Amerside Law 1
Panels visible:
Amerside Law 1
Artwork information for entire Amerside Law 1 panel:
Note: this applies to the entire panel, which might not be portrayed in its entirety in the image shown above
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- Art description:
This rock is a good example of how basic symbols used all over the county can be arranged in such a way that an individual result is produced. The largest figure has a central cup from which two grooves of different thicknesses lead down and loop together, enclosing a row of three cups. There may have been three other cups already before the design was made which could have been incorporated into the rest, which is three widely spaced concentric rings around a central cup. A curved groove leads from the outer circle, flanked by two cups.
To the right is a faint cup at the centre of two well-spaced concentric rings with a long groove branching to the right from the outer one. A large cup through which the narrow inner circle passes may have preceded the final decoration, and have been incorporated into it. To the left, the top figure is a rectangle with slightly rounded corners that encloses six cups, four of which lie at the centre of a circle from which edge run two parallel grooves that end in a cup and ring. A faint angular groove joins the outer circle from the right.
To the left of this motif is a large cup at the centre of two concentric rings, a groove leading out from the inner circle and flanked by a cup. This figure is joined to the top one by a long, straight, thin groove.
Below is a cup and ring with a groove from the outer ring that joins an arc framing a cup and ring. Another motif joins on below: a cup at the centre of a pear-shaped penannular with the central cup linked to it. The bottom motif is a cup at the centre of two well-spaced concentric rings; from the outer ring a thin groove leads to a small cup. A large cup ends the design.
The west end has an angular ring concentric to an angular ring around a cup, with a faint ring between the two. A thin groove leads left out of the cup. Above the motif are two cups and rings; below are two others that touch, and a groove leads down the rock from the outside of the ring.
The obvious parallel for the rectangular grooves with linked cups and the heart-shaped/oval groove with linked cups is Dod Law Main Rock. The almost square-shaped enclosures elsewhere are echoed at Chatton Park Hill and Buttony, so one may ask if there was a contact between the people who made them.
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