
Beckensall’s 3b; a small boulder decorated with cup and rings and plain cups.
Beckensall’s 3b; a small boulder decorated with cup and rings and plain cups.
Beckensall’s 4bi; a large sloping outrop 7m SW of 4a with highly eroded cup and ring motifs and a long curved groove barely visible except in ideal light.
Beckensall’s 7d; an outcrop with multiple cup and ring motifs although much obscured by lichen.
Beckensall’s rocks 1a, 1b & 1c just NW of Snook Bank
Whitton Burn 1a; a moss-covered cup-marked boulder in dark, thick forest by a stream. Easy to find, but not so easy to get to.
Whitton Burn 2a; close-up of cup and ring
Tod Crag 2; view East towards Tod Crag across acres of tussocky moorland.
Tod Crag 2; close-up of large oval basin.
Tod Crag 2; boulder situated on mostly featureless moorland 500m W of Tod Crag. There is a large deep oval basin and a cup (with possible ring) partially obscured by lichen.
Close-up of cup and rings at lower view-point shot directly into the oblique evening sun.
View NE towards Harwood Forest and distant Simonside Hills.
Tod Crag 1a; evening sun after rain. Probably one of the best carved rock panel in Northumberland.
Morwick 2d. Faint spiral inside a ring surrounded by an arc of cups with a groove below.
Beckensall 6g. Close-up of multiple cups and the start of channels at the top part of the rock.
Beckensall 6g. Large sloping slab in an area near the junction of wall and fence that is a hot-spot for carved panels. Cups appear to be clustered around the heads of long channels.
Beckensall 6ac. A quarried slab with 4 cups, including one very large and deep.
Beckensall 6i. Close-up of basin at top of rock surface with cup and rings carved inside.
Beckensall 6i. View to N. A large sloping out-crop with 7 channels running down the surface. Some scattered cups and 3 cup and rings pecked inside one of the upper rough or natural basins.
Beckensall 6k. A small boulder with 6 prominent cups.
Beckensall 6m. Close-up of highly eroded cup and possible ring.
Beckensall 6m. Large basin and groove which may be a natural feature or added to. 3 cups nearby, two with faint eroded rings.
Beckensall 6p. An area of many rock slabs. This with 3 parallel grooves.
Beckensall 6o. A large sloping outcrop with a long groove and 8 scattered cups.
Beckensall 6n next to the earth wall, a 140x50cm boulder with 7 cups.
Fine early-Autumn evening at Lordenshaw. The Horseshoe Rock (Beckensall 1d).
Lordenshaw main panel (Beckensall 2c). View W in evening sun towards the heather-covered Simonside Hills.
Replica Mesolithic hut built at site of Howick excavation.
Circular groove on small sloping boulder with possible pick marks.
Partial circlular groove disappears into turf at edge of boulder.
Close-up of circular groove showing possible pick marks.
50 cm diameter basin, draped Dali-esque over vertical and horizontal rock faces.