Osmonds Gill

Nearest town:
Barnard Castle (10km NW)
OS reference:
NZ073077
OS sheet:
92
Latitude:
54° 27' 51.76 N
Longitude:
1° 53' 14.52 W
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Images

Image of Osmonds Gill (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

Cup and rings eroding through the grain of the rock.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Nov 27, 2004
Image of Osmonds Gill (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) by Hob

A fairly complex motif, all alone in a place where sounds emanate from below the ground. Highly intriguing.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Nov 27, 2004

Articles

Osmonds Gill

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Aug 15, 2004

This rock is down near the valley floor of Osmonds Gill. The best way to approach it is to carefully scamble down the Gill from the south, you’ll see it amongst a bunch of boulders to your left.
This rock is No.68 in Beckensall & Lauries “Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale & Wensleydale”.

Miscellaneous

Osmonds Gill
Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Aug 15, 2004

“68 is a slab near the vallay floor, and, rare for this area, has four concentric circles that cut across the ‘grain’ of the rock, and this adds to the valley’s ‘special’ position in the landscape. From here rises one of the main streams that drain north, and the land opens out dramatically across the whole moor.”

Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale & Wensleydale.

S. Beckensall & T. Laurie
County Durham Books 1998

Topics

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Mar 2006

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