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Websites

Britain and Ireland 

British Rock Art Collection 

Kilmartin Museum 

England's Rock Art 

CSI: Rombalds Moor

Northumberland Rock Art - Beckensall Archive 

Northumberland and Durham Rock Art (NADRAP) 

Wicklow Rock Art Project 

The Megalithic Portal

The Modern Antiquarian

The Northern Antiquarian

 

Europe 

Petroglifos Gallegos 

CVARN - Rock Art Database of NW Portugal 

Galician Rock Art 

Shadows and Stone 

Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art

Valcamonica Rock Art (Italian Alps)

 

World Rock Art 

IFRAO (International Federation of Rock Art Organisations)

Trust for African Rock Art 

Bradshaw Rock Art Foundation 

Museum of Northern Arizona 

American Rock Art Research Association 

Museum of Northern Arizona Rock Art Bibliographic Database 

 

Resources

This section provides further information and detailed guidance to help you explore, record, and learn more about rock art in Scotland, and elsewhere in the world. 

Education

Rock art has the power to capture young people's imagination. It can be a fertile ground for learning about how people made sense of their world in the past, and how prehistoric beliefs were expressed and shared widely. This section promotes a learning resource focusing on rock art, produced by Forestry and Land Scotland.

 

Guidance

You can download all our Guidance Notes from this section. These documents provide detailed information to help you prepare for your fieldwork, identify, record and photograph rock art, and create 3D models. 

Videos and Podcasts

This section is dedicated to sharing many different outputs from the Scotland's Rock Art Project, and other rock art-related resources. You can listen to audio recordings, watch videos, and download our publications. 

Reading

Rock art has captured people's imagination for many decades, and is the subject of numerous publications. We have put together a list of books and articles that you might find interesting if you want to learn more this fascinating subject. 

 

Newsletters

If you are interested in knowing what we and our Community Teams are up to, and what we have planned, you can find out in our Spring and Autumn Newsletters! 

 
 

Downloads

In this section you can download a number of documents and other related resources, such as our promotional leaflet and our booklet about Scotland's rock art, as well as the rock art learning resource produced collaboratively with Forestry and Land Scotland!