Rock Art Research

The paper discusses the recent discovery of a cup-and-ring petroglyph located on the capstone of a megalithic monument in south-west Wales. Cup-and-rings are found in abundance across the Neolithic and Bronze Age Atlantic zone of western Europe, usually carved on rock-outcroppings. In Wales there is increasing evidence that these images along with single and multiple cupules are being used to statement megalithic monuments. The cup-and-ring, located on an enormous capstone of Garn Turne is the first to be found on a Neolithic chambered monument in Wales. It provides possible evidence for stratigraphic use of the monument and is one of an increasing number of monuments that hitherto were considered to be absent of art.