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Panel 1a with the crescent moon setting above the distant silhouette of Simonside.
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The view north, towards Simonside, from Middleton Bank Top. The silhouette of this hill may or may not have been a factor in the placement of this patch of rock art. But it keeps cropping up again and again, I reckon there’s something going on.
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Showing 2c in reference to 2a, which is just by the rucksack at the top. As you can see from the photo, there’s been a lot of quarrying around here, bits of rock art turn up in walls in a few of the farms around Shaftoe Crags.
Image credit: IH
This paltry pair of cups nd a groove are not on the online archive, but if they were, they’d be Middleton Bank Top 2c.
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Water to impose an interpretation of what’s there.
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The basin is the thing just to the left of the image.
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The outcrop viewed from the north.
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From SB’s 1986 Shire Archaeology series ‘Rock Carvings of Northern Britain’ ISBN 0 85263 760 8
Reproduced with kind permission.
Image credit: Stan Beckensall
The ‘hogback’, with a bunch of highly suspicious looking characters clustered around the main panel in the background.
May 24th 2005
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Ditches, banks and stuff. On top of a hill. Must be a hillfort.
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Taken at some point betwen 1920 and 1940. 2 decades might be a bit vague, but it’s just the blink of an eye to the stones themselves, though not to the signpost. I wonder what happened to it.
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Ripples on water, concentric circles in liquid and in stone.
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Natural ‘altar’ formation that appears to be a focal feature of the inscribed/scultptured/carved/marked/peacked/heavily eroded rocks of the Millstone Burn 6 group
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My interpretation of the carvings on this bit of outcrop differ wildly frm that shown on the Beckensall Archive. It could be a conflict of interpretation, or an entirely different stone in the under documented* group of ‘Weetwood 8‘
* With a notable exception
Image credit: Hobson
Millstone Burn 3g
I did wonder if this could have once been upright, as the marks are on the edge, and the weathering does seem similar to what you’d see on a fallen standing stone. Odd placement of the cups and grooves, quite unlike the others in the area.
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Millstone Burn 2h(i).
Otherwise know as ‘The little one just above the main one’.
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Millstone Burn 1f. East side of the road, south of 1a.
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Millstone Burn 1a, on the east side of the road, just by the mostly obscured footpath sign.
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