The Death’s Head Rock

Nearest town:
Otley (7km SSE)
OS reference:
SE178512
OS sheet:
104
Latitude:
53° 57' 22.65 N
Longitude:
1° 43' 43.35 W
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Image of The Death’s Head Rock (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Chris Collyer

View of the rock looking to the east. This part of the moor had been recently burned and looked like an alien landscape.

Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Apr 3, 2003

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The Death’s Head Rock

Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Apr 3, 2003

On the northern side of Snowdon Carr and a couple of hundred metres from the rocky edge of Snowdon Crags is this strange carving that can be said to resemble a skull although it reminded me more of Munch’s ‘The Scream’. It consists of an upside down triangle of cup marks with a smaller cup close to the middle. These three larger cups are surrounded by interlinking rings with form the shape of the face, the top 2 cups forming the eyes, the bottom one the mouth and the middle one a nose.
There are several other cup marked rocks close by in a damaged cairn field, one has four deep cups, while another has a large basin – I’m not sure if this is a natural feature or man made
GPS Ref SE17796, 51239

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