Photograph of multiple cups & a possible cup-and-ring marking, Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor 1980-1997


Illustration of a complex cup-marked boulder, Scale Knoll, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

A boulder at this site has a number of prehistoric cup and ring marks carved onto it. These carvings were probably carved 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 (1).

A carved sandstone rock. The visible part measures 0.56 metres by 0.56 metres by 0.08 metres high. It is situated on Barningham Moor, in the modern sheep-grazing enclosure known as Scale Knoll Allotment, on a slight knoll north east of Black Hill Gate. The carving consists of at least 13 cups, two of them connected by a short groove. Recorded as part of The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project (NADRAP) 2005-2008 (7).