Cup-marked boulder, Barningham Moor 1980-1997


Other angle of a cup-marked boulder, Barningham Moor 1980-1997


Illustration of multiple cup markings on a boulder on Barningham Moor 1980-1997

A small group of prehistoric remains can be seen at this site. A stone cairn may have been a Bronze Age burial mound. Nearby a rubble bank may be part of a slightly later prehistoric field. The earliest monument in the area is a stone with cupmarks carved onto it. These are Scheduled Monuments protected by law (1).

A cairn, a carved rock, and a rubble bank, situated on Barningham Moor, in the south west corner of the modern sheep-grazing enclosure known as Scale Knoll Allotment. The monument is on the east side of a small knoll, 800 metres south east of Far East Hope. The carved sandstone rock measures 1.03 metres by 0.64 metres by 0.53 metres high. The carving consists of between nine and 11 cups, four of them connected in pairs (9).