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Cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor, Teesdale (Barningham Moor)

Photograph of an upstanding cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Photograph of an upstanding cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

Landscape surrounding a cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Landscape surrounding a cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor 1980-1997

Illustration of a cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
Illustration of a cup-marked boulder, Wash Beck, Barningham Moor 1980-1997
This sandstone boulder has two cup marks and a groove on it. These may have been created naturally through water erosion, or may have been carved in the Early Bronze Age or Neolithic periods (1).

Rock art panel Barningham Moor 51 displaying motifs of single cup-like depression on a small rectangular block recorded as part of The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project (NADRAP) 2005-2008 (2).

D62227
Early Neolithic (4000BC to 3300BC)
21st Century (2001 to 2100)
Uncertain


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