Landscape view of rock art in a structure, Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor 1980-1997


Photograph of a cup-marked stone, Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor, Teesdale 1980-1997


Illustration of a cup-marked stone, found within a cairn on Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

This stone cairn has a rubble bank standing near to it. The cairn is probably a burial mound of Bronze Age date and contains a cup marked stone. The bank may mark part of a field system and is probably of slightly later date. This is a Scheduled Monument protected by law (1) (2).

A Bronze Age cairn 5 metres in diameter and an adjacent rubble bank 0.2 metres high, situated on Barningham Moor, in the modern sheep-grazing enclosure known as Scale Knoll Allotment. The cairn is composed of sandstone rocks, 0.5 metres by 0.4 metres by 0.4 metres, and is 0.4 metres high. The rubble bank is L-shaped with a maximum width of 2 metres. The bank runs northwards from a point 2 metres west of the edge of the cairn for 43 metres, then turns and continues eastwards for a further 14 metres. It is interpreted as prehistoric in date and would have defined a field area. Scheduled. Cup mark identified on a stone on south side of cairn. Recorded as part of The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project (NADRAP) 2005-2008. Further cup marked stones in immediate vicinity (8).