Stone 53: The "New" carvings

An animation of the scanned area of Stone 53 was created. This consisted of a stationary model of the surface encircled by a light at an angle of about 30 degrees. The light rotates a full 360 degrees, thus highlighting every feature on the surface of the stone in stages.

The animation revealed some axe-like shapes in the area where there are no known carvings, according to previous studies. Attention was shifted to this area, and over the period of a few months, the images of two axes were extracted. The image below shows them both with interpretations of their shape.

Read the full article in the November 2003 issue of British Archaeology.

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