Whiteley(sic) Pike 4 of Beckensall Archive. Two motifs: a 50cm diameter basin draped over both vertical and horizontal faces to the left and a small 12 cm diameter circular feature with raised center on vertical face to the right. Natural geological feature or rock art?
Close-up of single circular feature on a sloping rock surface, 10cm diameter and approximately 2cm deep.
Another finely made, circular basin about 40 cm diameter and 15 mm deep that runs to the edge of the rock (under vegetation).
25cm diameter basin with raised edge on a large flat slab.
Kiloran Bay – view to NE and site of Uamh na Mine cave.
Close-up of one of the two distinct cup marks in the vertical face of a boulder below the cave. This appears to link the cave to the Neolithic.
The NE coast of Jura. View S from the cliffs below An Carn.
Detail of weathering of a cup-mark which has been cut through the rock strata producing a pronounced rippling effect on the rock surface probably eccentuated by the effects of ice.
View of SW’most panel to the W, towards trees planted in early 1900s through which runs a stream and is the site of a corn-drying kiln
SW’most panel which bears 29 cup marks of varying size. The largest are 90mm diameter and 55mm deep
View to the S showing proximity of cup-marked panels to ruined houses of the An Carn township.
Emerged from the forest at last but for how long and still not easy to find.
View from near the cup-marked outcrop to the E over Keils to the islands of Small Isles Bay and the headland of Ardfernal with Knapdale in the distance over the Sound of Jura.
Close-up of one of the large, pristine cup-marks near the base of the outcrop on the vertical face. It is about 10cm in diameter and the same in depth.
View to N with the cup-marked outcrop centre left. One of the Paps of Jura and Corra Bheinn can just be seen above the intervening hills.
View of the outcrop from E. Highly eroded cups can just be seen on the upper surface and larger cups near the ground surface below.
Probable weathered cup mark at base of SE face.
Similar view to the one in the Beckensall Archive. It was a great help in finding the rock without an accurate position.
Several quite large cups, some with apparent rings, but all very eroded. Also shallow grooves on the surface and two cups on the SW edge below the heather.
Cup-marked rock in a difficult position on the E of the path from Caller Crags to Snook Bank. The W side has been quarried, the surface is covered with pine needles and the E side overgrown with heather and dense trees.
The Beckensall archive records about 50 cups of various sizes, some with partial rings. The rock surface had been brushed when I visited providing yet another example of human disturbance to Northumberland rock-art sites. I couldn’t relate anything in my poor photo to Stan’s illustration (but that’s always a trouble I have).
Caller Crag c. Cup-marked “standing stone” described in the Beckensall archive as having a minimum of 5 cups. If this surface is a consequence of both natural erosion and artificial carving, the effect is certainly stunning, as is its location above the crags.
More cups occur on the flat rock surface directly behind the stone (Caller Crag d) but were difficult to see. The site is about 150m NE of site a (well illustrated in the photos by rockartuk).
The dramatic, elephantine skyline of Caller Crags from the W. The cup-marked outcrop (site a; illustrated by rockartuk) is above the main cliff line to the right.
Large basin and grooves (probably formed by natural erosion) on the roof of the shelter. View NW over Iron Age settlement, below in trees, towards Wooler and The Cheviots.
View of the rock shelter from one of the standing stones on the slope below.
The Ringses interpretation board with the Camp behind.
Beanley Moor 7. Strikingly carved stone about 100 x 50cm, almost hidden in vegetation.
Beanley Moor 4. View SE from cup-marked boulder which lies in a small valley close to a prominent tree.
Beanley Moor 3. View NE from cup-marked rock outcrop.
Beanley Moor 3. Cup marked outcrop near to the top of a knoll, E of The Ringses.