Along the slope leading from the camp [NZ 09 NE 2] to the east, a series of marked rocks extends for about 1/4 mile, and forms the largest series of cup markings in Coquetdale. There are about 15 rocks in all. The following are the outstanding features - a small number of cups with well marked rings, mostly single: a profusion of simple cups, frequently clustered along the upper edges of sloping rock slabs; a marked exaggeration of the duct, which runs in certain cases to 13, 18 and even 22 feet in length; midget cups, with a maximum diameter of one inch, generally more like the print of a finger tip, and placed so close together as to give the rock a stippled appearance. The most striking examples are on rock number 6; giant cups or basins. There are a number of these, of which one of the best examples, on rock 6, is surrounded by a ring and grooves; deep channels. These are quite distinct from the long ducts, being much deeper and wider; the maximum depth is 6 inches, maximum width 8 inches, and the largest is nearly 30 feet long. They are generally wavy or serpentine in shape. Though generally connected with the cups there is one of these channels 17 feet long, which has no cups throughout its entire length (rock 5B); markings which suggest footsteps or slashes as on the sloping part of rock 5A, and the giant footsteps (rocks 12, 13 and 14).
The parallel scratchings on some of the marked rocks are not prehistoric, but are harrow marks dating from the early 19th century 'old enclosure'.
50 feet north-east of a prominent burial mound about 300 yards north east of Lordenshaws camp is a rock slab with six simple cups, observed since the above list of marked rocks was published. (1)

All the rocks on which markings are found slope to the east, and are generally very little above ground level.
22 paces east of the cist [NORTHUM 49NE 6] is Rock 2, which clearly has some connection with the cist. It has 10 plain cups, 4 cups with single ring, one cup with double ring and duct, also a cluster of small cups.
120 paces north-east of this lies Rock 1, and 100 paces fractionally east of south from the corner of the wooden fence. There are 12 plain cups and 2 cups with faint rings. Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 form part of a large group of rocks lying about 230 yards south of the cist.
No.3 is 42 paces north of the modern turf and stone dyke Lordenshaws cairn bears 230 degrees, distance 300 paces. It has 10 plain cups clustered in the south-west corner, two on the west side, one on the south side. No other features.
No.4 lies 3 yards south of 3. The much weathered surface has 18 plain cups, 5 cups with duct and one in the middle of a long duct, 4 cups with ring and duct. The largest duct is 22 feet, others are 18 and 12 feet and less.
No.5 is a long reef sloping from south-west to north-east, the upper portion is 7 paces south of No 4. The total length is 56 paces. There are three marked sections which are not continuous.
No.5A bears a channel 30 feet long wavy and serpentine, max depth of 6ins, max. width of 8ins. Around the head are 39 cups, one is directly at the head of the channel and connected with it. There are 26 other scattered cups, all without rings, and one only with a ring. On the steeply sloping part are 27 plain cups mostly arranged in vertical rows corresponding to ducts above. There are 4 minor ducts. Near the ringed cups are some faint ducts at right angles to one another, and unconnected with any cups.
5B bears a 17 foot duct running parallel with a natural water channel, 2 faint ducts, 2 large cups with ducts and 2 smaller ones.
5C at the lower end of the reef has 14 perfect symmetrical cups. There is one 5ft 2ins duct. A broad belt of pittings surrounds one of the cups.
Rock 6 lies 7 paces south of the enclosure mound:
Lordenshaws cairn bears 280. Nearly the whole surface is covered: 14 plain cups, 2 large cups and a round basin 12-13ins diameter, 6ins deep. There are several groups of midget cups like stippling, the main group contains about 60; one cup and ring containing a number of pittings, and one cup surrounded by a horseshoe pattern with cups at the ends, and a cup between the two terminals. There are a number of ducts.
No 7 is a stone lying at the lower side of a large oval cairn situated about the middle of the series, [NORTHUM 49 NE 6.E1], and forming a prominent object on the slope. It has 22 cups. The rock lies 150 yards south of No.6. No.8 lies 110 paces south-south-west of No.7 and is roughly triangular. There is a cup on a boss at the centre. It has one ring, vestiges of a second. There are 9 other cups, and 3 faint ducts.
No.9 is immediately west of 8. 6 cups were found.
No.10 lies 9 paces south-east of 8; and has a single duct from a cup, containing a cup 2 feet from the bottom and a small cup and ring, with traces of an outer ring. This rock is due west of the stone alignment [NORTHUM 49 NE 21].
No.11 lies 80 paces south-west of 10 and 50 paces west of the intersection of the turf dikes. It has one large channel with ducts and basins and 3 cups. There is a cluster of 10 plain cups and further ducts and cups to the north. Nos. 12, 13 and 14 run north to south and are close together. Each rock has a pear-shaped basin without ducts.
On No.14 is a large oval cup. The group is 50 paces south of No.11.
Nos.15, 16 and 17 are immediately to the south of the above group. No.15 has 6 basins, shallow without ducts from 10ins by 9ins to 15ins by 12ins.
No.16 has four shallow basins, one with a cup in the centre. No.17 has possibly two artificial basins of the same kind. It has also two large and four small cups.
Nos.15, 16 and 17 must all be classed as doubtful. They might have been passed over altogether as natural had it not been for the number of basins found in the whole series.
The beginning of this group is 45 paces north of the hollow way or ancient avenue which takes up to Lordenshaw Camp and 35 paces west of the old track which crosses the avenue.
The whole series is devoid of large circles with multiple rings and also gives no example of the knob or inverted cup and ridge or inverted duct pattern. (2)

Centred NZ 056993. The sculptured rocks described by authority (2) were all located and are as described except where partly obscured by a covering of lichen.
'A' NZ 05889965 (the Rock No 1 of authority (2)).
'B' NZ 05769959 (Rock No 2).
'C' NZ 05669942 (Rock No 3).
'D' NZ 05669941 (Rock No 4).
'E' NZ 05689940 (Rock No 5A).
'F' NZ 05719943 (Rocks 5B and 5C).
'G' NZ 05669936 (Rock 6).
'H' NZ 05689929 (Rock 7).
'J' NZ 05639920 (Rock 8).
'K' NZ 05629920 (Rock 9).
'L' NZ 05649920 (Rock 10).
'M' NZ 05569915 (Rock 11).
'N' NZ 05569911 (Rock 12).
'P' NZ 05569910 (Rock 13).
'Q' NZ 05569909 (Rock 14).
'R' NZ 05559908 (Rocks 15 and 16).
'S' NZ 05549908 (Rock 17).
'T' NZ 05609915. The rock referred to in last para in authority (1). This is a reef of outcrop 15m long with at least 14 weathered cups visible. (3)

Surveyed at 1/2500. Additional photograph of 'H'. For 1/2500 illust see NZ 09 NE 2(4)

Lordenshaws East. NZ 05859965, NZ 05659940, NZ 05609910. Outcrops, channels, cups, cups and rings. Channels are a strong characteristic of carvings in the Rothbury area. (5)

Scheduled. (6)

Additional reference (7a)