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Grasmere

Cup Marked Stone

<b>Grasmere</b>Posted by rockartwolfImage © Brian Kerr 2008
Nearest Town:Ambleside (4km ESE)
OS Ref (GB):   NY338078 / Sheet: 90
Latitude:54° 27' 39.65" N
Longitude:   3° 1' 16.88" W

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Having visited this site today I would add the following tip: DO NOT visit when it has rained solidly for days on end and there is little or no sunlight to cast any kind of shadow!

We clambered onto the very slippy rocks and both nearly met our maker at various points!

Ramsey, however, enjoyed drinking rain water out of the more defined cup marks!
Vicster Posted by Vicster
16th July 2010ce

Grasmere is another one of the recently discovered Cumbrian rock art panels. It was found by a lady called Liz Clay (cheers Kate).
The panel itself couldn't be easier to visit as it's in the middle of Grasmere village in the corner of Broadgate Park, right next to the NT carpark.
The panel itself is a glacially smoothed outcrop with dozens of cupmarks. There are definite similarities between this panel, in both the nature of the carvings and the location, and the panels in Patterdale and Crummock.
I've got a feeling that there maybe a lot more sites like this just waiting to be found.
I love this panel being in Grasmere, I was able to visit the panel and tip a nod to Wordsworth.
I only found out about the Constable exhibition in the Wordsworth Museum when I got home..damn! http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/Default.asp?Page=37
fitzcoraldo Posted by fitzcoraldo
3rd September 2006ce