[Marginal] Chirnells Moor. At about 700 feet contour, on a low hill or ridge running parallel with, and west of, the grass road from Thropton known as Physic Lane; eight rocks with cup markings, many considerably weathered. Outstanding features are - clusters of single cups along the upper edges of sloping rocks; one shallow circular basin; a few large deep cups of the basin type; several indeterminate grooves or linear figures; no ducts or channels. (1)

Cup and groove marked rock, Chirnells Moor [Photograph showing rock surface with cup of the shallow basin type]. (2)

[Area NU 042028] The carvings lie right on the crest of Chirnells Moor, a low spur which runs down towards Thropton, about the 700 feet contour, where the smooth strata of the felltop sandstone lie flush with the slope of the hill. They are in the last field on the left of the green lane which runs up from Thropton, before it reaches the moor. On the near skyline a dry stone dyke joins the fence which divides field from moor. 31 yards south-west of this junction is a stunted beech tree. West of the tree, a small stone stands on the ridge crest. 15 paces north-west a small upstanding rock bears one cup. It is the only carving that is not on a rock flush with the ground and not close to the ridge. Of the others all but the 8th, lie to the left of the crest, the south-west side. 84 paces down a scarp 38 feet by 5 feet, bears cups mostly along the upper edge, a wide shallow basin, two deep basins lower down, and a cup with one ring. A
small rock beside the main area bears three or four faint cups. Rock 3 lies 17 paces back towards the tree from 2, among the bracken. It has 11 cups clustered along the top. Rock 4 lies a few yards downhill from 3. It has 6 cups, each with a single ring and without grooves. Five rather poor cups in the bottom lefthand corner. Rock 5 37 paces down the ridge from Rock 2, bears one good and four poor cups. 66 paces from 2, is Rock 6. It has 8 cups along its upper edge. Rock 7 lies some 10 paces further on. It bears a wide shallow basin at the right-
hand end, a row of well made cups in the centre, and faint linear figures at either end of the stone. Rock 8 lies between 6 and 7 on the right of the ridge. It has small cups set at random, where the irregularities of the surface permit. (3)

Scheduled Ancient Monument; County Number 166. (4)

Centred NU 04220284. Situation and description of the rocks given by Authority 3 are fully correct. Rock 8 has at least 36 single cups. (5)

All but one of these rocks (the first mentioned) relocated and surveyed at 1:2500. (6)

Scheduled. (7)

NU 0414 0275. Cup & ring marked rocks on Chirnells Moor, 800m E of Red Chirnells. Scheduled RSM No 20886. An area of bedrock which outcrops in at least 7 places with many groups of cupmarks and several cup-and-ring marks visible on its surface. The outcrops form a low ridge extending 101m NE-SW along the crest of Chirnells Moor and for 28m NW-SE. The marks occur in large clusters and in isolation, generally 6cm in diameter. (8a)

A band of this outcrop of rock shows throught the grass on the slope to the left. There are motifs on ten patches of sloping outcrop that protrude from the grass. (8b-c)