
Panel e, lower motif
Panel e, lower motif
Panel i
Panel e
Panel d
Panel d
Panel b.
The cups are smaller than usual, but there’s lots of them.
Panel b, detail.
Panel c.
With dodgy sidelighting to show up the shallower cupmarks.
Fowberry Mains/Park (b) (Beckensall 2001) rock with linked cup-motif. View W towards North Plantation (site of the Fowberry Excavation Site) and Whitsunbank.
Fowberry Mains/Park (e) (Beckensall 2001: 65) but now heavily encrusted with lichen and difficult to see the motifs clearly. View to the SW towards Chillingham and Ross Castle.
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The Chicken stone. 25-5-03.
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View over the site to the South. May 2002.
Over 100 cup-marks form-up what looks like a horse without legs. The whole rectangular outcrop has been used for this remarkable design.
Detail of a motif which really is a ‘variation’ of the more common cup-and-ring carvings. It looks like a chicken or jellyfish. Where there already chickens in Northumberland in the late Stone- and early bronze Age?
A panel of rock art with a nice double keyhole motif at the top.
Detail of the keyhole motif. It looks as if the (sharper) outrunning grooves are aditionals to the original cup-and-rings motif.
Panel e. Small motif besides the keyhole one.
Panel c. Two cups with a shallow one in the middle. May 2002.
We visited this unusual rock art site in May 2002. If you look for variations to the great abstract rock art tradition, this is the right place to be. Not only the horse-like design made up of > 100 cups in line, but also encircled cups with radiates will trigger your imagination. Don’t forget to ask permission from the farmer (mr Lance Strother) of Fowberry Moor Farm to walk his land. Park your car outside the farm grounds along the wall and walk-up to the farm. Cars are always in the way here! On your way back to the farm gate you’ll find Fowberry Cairn at the left side of the road just before the gate in the wooded triangle.
Fowberry Mains on BRAC