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Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

Panel b.
The cups are smaller than usual, but there’s lots of them.

Image credit: IH
Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

Panel c.

With dodgy sidelighting to show up the shallower cupmarks.

Image credit: IH
Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockandy

Fowberry Mains/Park (b) (Beckensall 2001) rock with linked cup-motif. View W towards North Plantation (site of the Fowberry Excavation Site) and Whitsunbank.

Image credit: Rockandy
Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockandy

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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Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

Over 100 cup-marks form-up what looks like a horse without legs. The whole rectangular outcrop has been used for this remarkable design.

Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

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?

Image of Fowberry Mains (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by rockartuk

Detail of the keyhole motif. It looks as if the (sharper) outrunning grooves are aditionals to the original cup-and-rings motif.

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Fowberry Mains

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.

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