How Tallon Round Barrow And Rock Art, How Tallon Round Barrow And Cup Marked Stones, How Tallon Cairn, Barningham Moor, Teesdale (Barningham Moor)

Emma Watson - photographer 18-Jan-2020

This sandstone boulder, within the wall over How Tallon Cairn, has a number of cup marks carved onto it. This stone must have been moved into this position, possibly from the cairn. These carvings were probably made in the Early Bronze Age or Neolithic periods. The purpose of these markings are not clear, although they may have had a religious function (14).

The round cairn was excavated in 1897. Five burials, all inhumations, and an empty cist were found. An Ordnance Survey concrete triangulation pillar is located on the north summit of the cairn. The modern field wall that runs over the cairn contains rock art motif of cup-marked stones which were disturbed during the excavations and built into the wall over the cairn afterwards. The panels were recorded as part of The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project (NADRAP) 2005-2008. Scheduled (1).

Reference number:

D62269

Historical period:

20th Century (1901 to 2000)
Later Prehistoric (4000BC to 43AD)
Early Neolithic (4000BC to 3300BC)
Bronze Age (2600BC to 700BC)
Early Bronze Age (2600BC to 1600BC)
21st Century (2001 to 2100)

Legal status:

Scheduled Monument
• National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1010540

Event(s):

RCHME: Durham SAMs Project 1991; Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
Excavation at How Tallon round cairn, Barningham Moor, County Durham, 1936
Excavation at How Tallon round cairn, Barningham Moor, County Durham, 1897

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