Details of some 145 cup marks on a boulder also known locally as 'The Fairy Stone'.
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Description of, and references for, a stone with 14 cups, many with grooves/ducts and two with pennanulars.
(NMRS Number: NC92SW 10)
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Archaeology notes, references etc.
(NMRS Number: NC74NW 4)
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The mighty Beckensall's interpretation, presumably based on a rubbing of a stone in the area of Weetwood 8. Despite confusion regarding the exact location and number of carvings, efforts have been made to ameliorate the apparent ambiguities.
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A whole load of pages, showing all 14 panels discovered so far.
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A bunch of photos of the outcrop and it's carvings
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A bunch of images of the portable rock art embedded in the bridge foundations.
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A description of the 2 cup marked stones within spitting distance of the circle.
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A nice 360 spinning panorama of the very faint rock art (panel 1a), with obligatory view of Simonside.
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Pictures of the elusive cups.
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Info and pics of the damaged motif at West Shaftoe Farm
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Pics and info on the Cartington Carriageway (b) stone.
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Pics and info on the Cartrington Carriageway (a) stone.
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A concise review from 2002, describing academic postulations on the subject of rock art in the British Isles, with a good bibliography.
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A description of the discovery and original setting of an unusual example of portable rock art found in Tyne and Wear.
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Maarten van Hoek's website, with many excellent photos of RA in England, Scotland and Ireland.
With links to his pages on Europe and elsewhere.
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Short account of the Arthurian connection, with reference to Cummings Cross.
I can't help think the tale of the warrior in the hollow hill may be an echo of the person in centuries past, who discovered the burial cist on Haughton Common.
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I like the Prehistoric Rock Art of Northumberland:
Ketley Crag
Chatton
Weetwood Moor
Dod Law
Roughting Linn
Lordenshaw
Fowberry Cairn
Hunterheugh
Old Bewick
Morwick
Currently obsessed with waving torches at things, often including rocks, as a prelude to some serious waving of torches at rocks that will inevitably appear here on tma at some point :)
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