For worrit's worth, my opinion of the stone is that the cup-marks are pretty old. I first saw this stone about 30yrs back and the 'cups' looked as aged then as they do today. S'ppose the advantage with this one is that it's upright (male), so won't get as heavily weathered.

There has been talk down the years that this might be a small standing stone. I remember Bob Trubshaw seeing a few uprights of this size many years back with us and he said how, if they occurred of the same size in his part of the country, they'd definitely be deemed as such. But I'd prefer to be a bit more cautious on that one - otherwise our monolith count on the Yorkshire moors would double overnight!

In my archaeoastronomy days I seem to recall this stone being an equinox marker from the Haystack Stone - though I don't buy that anymore.