Achnabreck - a horned spiral by tychofarrar on Flickr. “This place is magical. There largest expanse of rock art in Britain, with rings, cups and gutters as well as some curious motifs like this horned spiral. Scholars are slowly revealing some of this Neolithic rock art’s secrets but it’s unlikely we’ll ever know just what the symbols mean. I find their enigmatic elegance hypnotic. This site was one of the first to be recorded in the 1800s. Its name probably means speckled field (not field of the trout as has been suggested). There are records of what local farmers thought the symbols meant, concerning the positions of planets when key events occurred.”

Achnabreck - a horned spiral by tychofarrar on Flickr.

“This place is magical. There largest expanse of rock art in Britain, with rings, cups and gutters as well as some curious motifs like this horned spiral. Scholars are slowly revealing some of this Neolithic rock art’s secrets but it’s unlikely we’ll ever know just what the symbols mean. I find their enigmatic elegance hypnotic.

This site was one of the first to be recorded in the 1800s. Its name probably means speckled field (not field of the trout as has been suggested). There are records of what local farmers thought the symbols meant, concerning the positions of planets when key events occurred.”