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Cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor, Teesdale (Barningham Moor)

Clear multiple rings on a boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Clear multiple rings on a boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

Deep cup and multiple cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Deep cup and multiple cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

Large cup and multi-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Large cup and multi-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

Cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

Illustration of a complex cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North 1980-1997
Illustration of a complex cup-and-ring-marked boulder, Eel Hill North 1980-1997
A stone in this field has several cup and ring marks and cup marks carved onto it. These carvings were probably created in the Early Bronze Age or Late Neolithic. The purpose of these carvings is not clear, though they may have had a religious function. This is a Scheduled Monument, protected by law (2).

Bronze Age cup and ring marked rock (in situ). The rock is carved with a large pecked 'basin' 0.25m in diameter and over 0.2m deep, a single cup mark and four cup and ring marks (10).

D1003
Early Neolithic (4000BC to 3300BC)
Bronze Age (2600BC to 700BC)
21st Century (2001 to 2100)
Scheduled Monument
  • National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1017441
RCHME: Durham SAMs Project 1991; Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England


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