Details and photo of the incised stone.
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Some sparse details, but with a nice close up pic, and some references.
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A .pdf file detailing four cup marked stones.
By A. Marshall
From the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1986, Vol. 104, 220-225
Courtesy of the University of Gloucestershire website.
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What a remarkable thing!
A cup and ring marked stone? In Gloucestershire? Written up by that stalwart of the Scots CnR fraternity R.W.B. Morris? In 1983?
Apparently so.
A tidy account of this OOPPRA* provided courstesy of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Via the University of Gloucestershire website.
(*out-of-place-portable-rock-art. I just made that term up. It's utter tosh really, as the stone found was made of local oolite, so it's not out of place. Which actually makes it seem all the more remarkable as you do not get CnRs down south. everyone knows that...)
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'The Ancient British Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland and the Eastern Borders'
Seminal work on British Rock art by Mr George Tate, 1865.
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Some nice pics of a few Cornish monuments and natural rock formations, including an infra red image of the Men-an-Tol
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Apparently, this was once thought to be a very ruinous chambered cairn. But this is now disputed.
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Is it a cairn?
Or is it a fort?
It's a cairn.
In a plantation.
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A tiny thumbnail of a decidedly cup maked stone, with a bit of extra dressing on the top.
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The bit of the BBC's Countryfile programme which has Stan Beckensall and Aron Mazel talking about Northumbrian RA.
Some nice shots of Ketley Crag in there.
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A pdf file of an essay from 1929 by Duncan Colville, with photos.
Courtesy of The Archaeology Data Service.
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More info about the stone, with mention of the other ancient stones of the island, including the Bodach and the Cailleach.
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Some stuff about possible archaeoastronomical significance of the stone.
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Description of the stone courtesy of the West of Scotland Archaeology Service.
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Strobey, blurry, moving pictures of the carvings in the dark.
2Mb file.
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I like the Prehistoric Rock Art of Northumberland:
Ketley Crag
Chatton
Weetwood Moor
Dod Law
Roughting Linn
Lordenshaw
Fowberry Cairn
Hunterheugh
Old Bewick
Morwick
Currently obsessed with waving torches at things, often including rocks, as a prelude to some serious waving of torches at rocks that will inevitably appear here on tma at some point :)
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