The multiple rings are shown quite clearly, though it is pointed out that the stone is probably displaced from it’s original position, based on the assumption that the row of stones in which it is found, may be a medieval field wall.
Hob
Some interesting information regarding a number of cup marks found on this feature.
Looking at Iron Man’s photo, cup-like marks can be seen, I wonder if they are the same ones? They remind me of some of the ‘controversial’ cups at The Langdale boulders.
A list of illustrations of the 17 marked stones found in the cairns. Mostly nowt special, mostly single cups, but with a couple of bits that may be vaguely interesting to enthusiasts.
Details of a cup and groove marked stone found in the ramparts
Some nice photos and a couple of extracts from the local press
Detail of the cup marked stone with a little bit of background regarding cupmarks in general, and a nice 10 figure grid reference (SX 59480 75261) for this particular stone.
Ponting’s pages. Lots of info, descriptions, site plans etc.
There’s a lovely photo of the stones covered in snow.
By Abegael Saward
Reprinted from Caerdroia 32 (2001), pp.21-27
Discusses the debate over the age of the labyrinth
More nice old pics of this dislocated panel.
By D.W. Harding:
This paper reviews progress in Atlantic Scottish Iron Age studies over the past twenty years, with particular reference to a long-term programme of fieldwork in west Lewis undertaken by the University of Edinburgh. It deprecates the survival and revival of older conventional models for defining and dating the major field monuments of the period and region in the face of accumulating evidence for the origins of Atlantic roundhouses in the mid-first millennium BC, and discusses important new evidence for the first-millennium AD sequence of occupation and material culture. The material assemblages of the Hebridean Iron Age are contrasted with the impoverished and relatively aceramic material culture of lowland Scotland and northern England, and the importance of the western seaways in later prehistoric and early historic times as a distinctive cultural region is emphasised.
Details of some 145 cup marks on a boulder also known locally as ‘The Fairy Stone’.
Description of, and references for, a stone with 14 cups, many with grooves/ducts and two with pennanulars.
(NMRS Number: NC92SW 10)
Archaeology notes, references etc.
(NMRS Number: NC74NW 4)
The mighty Beckensall’s interpretation, presumably based on a rubbing of a stone in the area of Weetwood 8. Despite confusion regarding the exact location and number of carvings, efforts have been made to ameliorate the apparent ambiguities.
A whole load of pages, showing all 14 panels discovered so far.
A bunch of photos of the outcrop and it’s carvings
A bunch of images of the portable rock art embedded in the bridge foundations.
A description of the 2 cup marked stones within spitting distance of the circle.
A nice 360 spinning panorama of the very faint rock art (panel 1a), with obligatory view of Simonside.
Pictures of the elusive cups.
Info and pics of the damaged motif at West Shaftoe Farm
Pics and info on the Cartington Carriageway (b) stone.
Pics and info on the Cartrington Carriageway (a) stone.
A concise review from 2002, describing academic postulations on the subject of rock art in the British Isles, with a good bibliography.
A description of the discovery and original setting of an unusual example of portable rock art found in Tyne and Wear.
Maarten van Hoek’s website, with many excellent photos of RA in England, Scotland and Ireland.
With links to his pages on Europe and elsewhere.
Short account of the Arthurian connection, with reference to Cummings Cross.
I can’t help think the tale of the warrior in the hollow hill may be an echo of the person in centuries past, who discovered the burial cist on Haughton Common.
Short description of the stone, just to prove it’s actually a standing stone, and not an upright pebble.
For a comprehensive review of entoptic imagery in rock art.
Not just substance induced patterns, as is often bandied about, but also naturally occuring phosphenes.
It’s an old review (’95), based on even older material (mostly 70s). But it’s a subject that may attract interest due to the current trends in Cognitive Archaeology.
“Cognitive archaeology is the branch of archaeology that investigates the development of human cognition. It therefore deals with a great variety of evidence, ranging from early rock art to other forms of palaeoart, from animal cognition to palaeoanthropology to psychology and ontogenic cognitive development, and it also needs to concern itself with evidence of early human technology and the ability of domesticating natural systems of energy.”
Good link at the bottom to a site on the age of rock art
Mostly Paleolithic Links.
Organised into categories:
General resources, stone age geology, food and nutrition, architecture and engineering and art and adornment.
With a extra spot on possible reasons for the extinction of the Neanderthals.
With images of the stone before it fell over.
Family friendly archaeological visitor centre.
25 Miles from Aberdeen. Indoor and outdoor activities.
Covers neolithic – iron age periods, with a reconstruction of roundhouse etc. I liked it, so did the missus and the bairn.
Searchable lists of prehistoric sites for both Durham and Northumberland. Not a lot of info, but good maps available, and ref numbers for each site, to let people send them requests for more detailed info. Includes a few potential sites that aren’t on the SMR or the RSM. Nb: Durham and Northumberland only.
The New England Antiquities Research Association
“is a non-profit organization dedicated to a better understanding of our historic and prehistoric past through the study and preservation of New England’s stone sites in their cultural context.”
Interesting articles and pics of Sites in New England.
Gives references for the dog holes caves about one third of the way down the page.
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