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About 80m east of Robin Hood’s Pricking Rods is a smallish gritstone slab with 10-11 cup marks on it’s upper surface. It lies on the bank of a small spring.

A smart stone but because it is so worn... a diagram of what is actually on the stone is well handy to fully appreciate it.

About 100yds south of the Bullstones and over the field wall is another upright stone, I can find no details or records of the stone, it just looked a tad suspicious being so close to the Bullstones.

Not having read anything about Roughting Linn, I had no idea the ditches and banks were earthworks as I fought my way thru’ the bracken to the rock. It was also a bright sunny day so a lot of the smaller carvings were hard to pick out.
Again I didn’t have much time here and it was shortened by a gang of oap’s dragging me back thru’ the gate to join ‘em in their picnic.

A nice enough little stone.......handily just over a metal gate so access is pretty straightforward.

I didn’t have a lot of time here so I spent it looking for the large slab with huge cup and ring marks.....a stunning stone.(NU02158 28230)

There are quite a few other worn carvings on the stones above the first small quarry you come to when you enter the moor by the path near the cattle grid. The main slab is beyond these near the ‘edge’.

I’m not an expert in rock art matters.....
But...as you leave the ‘main panel’ and head uphill toward the trig point, not heading for the stile though, go to its left. Just before the fence is a cup marked stone with fresh looking peck-marks.

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The first time I saw pictures of the Ketley Crags shelter I knew I had to see it... the pictures had been burning in my mind.....it really is just one of those places you gotta see.....it wont disappoint.

I spent what seemed like an age looking through the bracken and rocks for the rock shelter......it musta been the last rock I went to.
It’s a real jaw-dropper.......it’d be hard to top this place in my opinion.

There’s also plenty to see on your way over Chatton.

Chris’s non-exact directions are about right. Only if you go in summer the stone is well hidden in high bracken and not visible from the path.

Back to these carvings for the 2nd time this week, this time with Fitzcolrado. And true to form he found the carvings to the south of the main group mentioned by Stan Beckensall and Chris Collyer. Only he found it to the NE of the group, on the larger section of the outcrop.

I reckon Stan’s picture shows whats up on the Hanging Stones, but doesn’t show it where it really is on the ground.

Great looking stone.....
Now totally f***ed up by an arse with a can of red paint.

Perhaps 20m NNW of the Stanage Cairn is a rock with a possible 10 cup marks on it’s top, 5 of them are hidden under a carpet of heather.

There is a stone close-by that also has ‘hollowed’ marks but these are thought to be natural. Because of this second stone Barnatt and Chums are still debating whether the 10 cup marks are natural or not.

Near the centre of the barrow is a well defined cup mark on a stone block. The stone is just out of the loose rocks of the cairn close to what could be the remains of a cist.

These are excellent carvings but are in a pretty bad place to be on the moor.
It would bea good idea to get a copy of the diagram posted on this page or something similar, there is quite alot of recent graffiti scratched all over the shop and it gets a bit tricky to see what’s what. Unbelievable really when you think they’re in a quarry full of shag rocks to piss on.

I have to agree that it’s a disappointing site, even more so after searching through the bracken.

Further to Chris’ field note the NMR has a stone with 5 cup marks down at SE1299 4638; the pointed stone is quite small and the cups are worn.

It was good to hear that Chris Collyer had a hard time finding the stones first time out......after finding only 1 of the larger carved stones I feel less of a nubber for it.
In the entrance to the D-shaped part of the enclosure on the right-hand side of the wall is a small single cup marked(?) slab.