View across valley of a cup-marked boulder, Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor, Teesdale 1980-1997


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


Illustration of a single cup on a boulder, Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

This stone cairn may be the remains of Bronze Age burial cairn. On the north-east edge, a rock with a cup and ring mark can be seen. This is a Scheduled Monument protected by law (1).

A grass covered Bronze Age cairn 5 metres in diameter, and a carved rock, one cup with partial ring, which is in the north east side of the cairn. It is situated on Barningham Moor, in the modern sheep-grazing enclosure known as Scale Knoll Allotment. The cairn has been slightly disturbed by stone robbing; it stands to a height of 0.4 metres. The carved rock is visible in the north east edge of the cairn, and is partly covered in vegetation. It is not possible to establish whether the carved rock is part of the cairn material or if it predates the cairn. The visible part of the rock measures 0.6 metres by 0.45 metres by 0.05 metres (7).