RockRich tries to see the very faint carvings. The one visible at the base of the rock was hidden under the turf and made a nice hemisphere of roots and peat as we peeled it away. We put it back after pic taking, of course.
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Odd thing this. It appears to be a large rock that’s been shot at! On closer inspection, there are also some more weathered markings that *may* be cups. It’s about half-way between the former site of Bradup circle and the plantation at Rivock. Check it out and see what you think...
The large boulder on the eastern boundary of the conifer plantation. Looking south(ish), showing detail of the carvings with a walking pole for a sense of scale. Grid ref: SE 08142 44875.
A pair of carved rocks, Rivock Edge.
Cup marks on upper surface of rock now used as a boundary stone in plantation wall.
Rock with a single cup mark on it’s vertical face.
Cup marked rock at Rivock.
Carved rock, taken from about 12 feet up a tree! Grid ref; SE 075 445
Close up detail of cup-and-ring marked rock. Rivock Edge plantation.
A row of three cups. Grid ref; SE 074 446 approx.
At least fourteen cups on this one!
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Much of what is here is poorly accessible due to the thick forestry plantation, but as the woodland is up for sale, the trees may be harvested soon. A few rocks exist in the heather nearby and a large boulder (now a boundary stone) set into the wall bears dozens of cup marks on its upper surface.
Rivock – Probabley Old English for ‘Riven Oak’.
At first this area gave me little inspiration to explore. Over the years I’d made a few trips through the barren interior of the plantation there. It always seemed a dead and forbidding place, so it was with little enthusiasm that we undertook a trip to search for the many cup-and-ring marked rocks we’d heard were there...
The entire wood is private land with one bridleway running through and one footpath that ends at the boundary! The only way to find anything is to accidentally wander off the paths and be ‘lost’!
Of course, I’d never advocate trespassing!
Within the plantation are lots of cup-and-ring marked rocks. Unfortunately they are covered in 30 years of conifer needles and accumulated dross!
It’s slow-going going crawling about on all fours, searching for the stones and scraping away the earth to see if there’s any carvings... fun though!
We only found a few during an entire afternoon – have to get ‘lost’ up there again soon...
There’s also the curious ‘Rivock Oven’; a sort of ‘chamber’ of rock with a chimney. And the Rivock Well. And probabley more that we haven’t found yet...
Apart from irate landowners, beware of the floating ‘hooded figures’ seen there in 1998 by council countryside workers who were resurfacing the bridleway! (Maybe they were the ‘Genii Cucullati’?!)
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Sites within 20km of Rivock Edge
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Bradup
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The Doubler Stones
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Scheduled Rock 25350
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Buck Stones – West
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The Piper Crag Stone
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Addingham Crag Stone
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Cowper’s Cross
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The Hardwick Stone
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The Sepulchre Stone
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The Anvil Stone
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Two Eggs
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WoodHouse Crag
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The Swastika Stone
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Black Beck Hole
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Neb Stone
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Thimble Stones
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PRAWR 242
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PRAWR 238
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Weary Hill Road
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Upwood Hall
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PRAWR 241
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Stanbury Hill
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Silver Well Cottage Stones
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PRAWR 245
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Silver Well Stones
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PRAWR 230-233
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Weary Hill Stone
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Graining’s Head
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The Badger Stone
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Little Badger Stone
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PRAWR 249
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Nixon’s Station
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Whetstone
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PRAWR 254
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Green Gates
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Barmishaw Stone
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PRAWR 256 Pitchfork stone
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PRAWR 255
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Ashlar Chair
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Willy Hall’s Wood Stone
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Pepperpot
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Panorama Stone
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Gill Head Standing Stone
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The Twelve Apostles of Ilkley Moor
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Backstone Circle
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Backstone Beck 5
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Backstone Beck West
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Backstone Beck Enclosure
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PRAWR 272
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Counter Hill Barrow
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Coin Rock
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Harden Moor
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Hanging Stones
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Lanshaw Lass
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PRAWR 298
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Counter Hill (Addingham)
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The Planets
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Horncliffe
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The Idol Rock
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Round Dikes (Addingham)
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Cow and Calf Rocks
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Green Crag Enclosure
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Lanshaw Stone
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Haystack
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The Idol Stone
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Hotel Stone
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Lanshaw E
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Grubstones
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Pancake Rock
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Little Skirtful of Stones
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Catstones Ring
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Woofa Bank Enclosure
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Great Skirtful of Stones
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Cold Stone
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Fairy Stone (Cottingley)
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Baildon Moor Circle
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Black Hill
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Low Bradley Moor
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Thief Thorn Standing Stone (Draughton Moor)
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Baildon Stone 3
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Middleton Moor 446
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Baildon Stone 1 (Dobrudden)
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Middleton Moor 448
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PRAWR 150
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Middleton Moor 454
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Middleton Moor 453
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Middleton Moor 455
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Middleton Moor 435
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Middleton Moor 437
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Brackenhall Circle
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Baildon Stone 2
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Baildon Stone 4
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Middleton Moor 458
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Middleton Moor 482
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Middleton Moor 462
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Middleton Moor 481 Latice Rock
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Castlestead Ring
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Middleton Moor 501
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Hitching Stone (Keighley Moor)
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Winter Hill Stone
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High Badger Gate
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Askwith Moor 512
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Hollin Tree Hill
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Askwith Moor
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Man Stone
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Woman Stone, Askwith Moor
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Askwith Moor 534
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Askwith Moor 525
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Askwith Moor 533
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Silver Hill
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Weston Moor
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The Death’s Head Rock
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The Tree Of Life Rock
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Snowden Carr I
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Ellers Wood, Askwith
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Bull Stone
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Knotties Stone (Otley Chevin)
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Pin Stone
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Brandrith Crags
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Calverley Woods
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Fairy’s Chest
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Rectory Allotment
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Bleara Lowe
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Rocking Stone, Warley Moor
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Wycoller Hall
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Walshaw Dean
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Bank Slack Camp
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Skyreholme 426
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Skyreholme 421
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Miller’s Grave
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Robin Hood’s Penny Stone
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Skyreholme 422
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Midgley Moor Standing Stone
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Dove Stones
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Skyreholme
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Skyreholme
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Skyreholme 418
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Skyreholme – Chopper’s Stone
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Horsforth Milestone
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Skyreholme 415
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Horsforth Low Hall Cup and Ring stone
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Sutcliffe Rough Standing Stone
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Skyreholme Walled Boulder
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Churn Milk Joan
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Skyreholme 401
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Skyreholme 404
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Skyreholme 407
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Wicken Hill
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Elbolton Hill
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Appletreewick
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Dry Gill
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Standing Stone Hill
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Burwains Camp
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Almscliffe Crag
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Ring Stones Hill
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Dumpit Hill
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Castercliff Camp
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