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I don't think it's a line that can be drawn. It's too wiggly.

But those cups are on this side of that line. Even if they have no provenance, the mere possibility that such OOPArts as cup marks down south, might have pre-historic origins is something worthy of being bounced about here. Correct me if I'm talking bollox, but you don't get rock art down your way do you? So whilst some might say this makes them unlikely to be pre-historic, I'd argue that it would be worth getting someone to try and check, because if they are its a doozy.

They remind me of the things I saw on the telly at Zennor museum, which in turn reminded me of Bullauns. But then I do like cup marks. I'll see them everywhere given the chance.

Infact, what's that over there on the floor by the sofa?


Nah, that's just a mark left by a cup.

Now that* was a low quality pun.

Whilst out on High Badger Gate last week, I found a cup marked rock reused as an 18th C boundary stone at the Denton/Middleton boundary. This is not uncommon in Yorkshire, where many ancient landmarks have retained their significance thru' historical times.

Hob!
Re the query about cup-markings down South. They're certainly few & far between, but that aint to say they're not there. A rather good example can be seen at Fyfield near Avebury, where as many as 23 simple cups can be seen on one of the rocks (SU 135 715). Cup-markings were also found a stone in a round barrow at West Harptree in the Mendips. I'll stick a post of them on TMA later on. Aint gotta picture of the Mendips stone, but there's one somewhere of the Fyfield carvings in an old archaeology mag stuck in one of mi boxes.
Paulus