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Typical cup and ring marks at Weetwood Moor, in the English county of Northumberland (Google Maps). Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France (), Portugal, and Spain – and in Mediterranean Europe – Italy (in Alpine valleys and Sardinia), Azerbaijan and Greece (Thessaly [citation ...
Two small gold cups have been found in England, the Rillaton Cup and the similar but now crushed Ringlemere Cup. Due to its natural resources, Ireland had a "rich Early Bronze Age [metal-working] industry", producing large quantities of metal axes, halberds and daggers, and as a part of this also had a "major gold industry", seeing the ...
The Ringlemere Gold Cup is a Bronze Age vessel found in the Ringlemere barrow near Sandwich in the English county of Kent in 2001.Its discovery started the whole research and excavation into what turned out to be the Ringlemere Barrow and the other ring marks etc in the soil around it.
Petroglyphic in nature, the majority of such carvings are abstract in design, usually cup and ring marks, although examples of spirals or figurative depictions of weaponry are also known. Only one form of rock art in Europe, this late prehistoric tradition had connections with others along Atlantic Europe, particularly in Galicia.
Hunterheugh Crags are part of the Fellsandstone escarpment, 5 miles (8 km) north west of Alnwick, Northumberland, England and 9 miles (14 km) from the coast. The site is moorland forming part of the Bewick and Beanley Moors SSSI, although before the Bronze Age it is likely to have been thickly forested with broadleaf deciduous trees.
The cup and ring marks are composed of two 'panels' with several hundred 'cup and ring' and other glyphs or carvings in a range of styles, ranging from single shallow cups through to deeper cups with multiple rings. Less common, but unique in the Scottish context are ‘square with cup’ carvings; ‘ringed stars’ are also present.
Weetwood Moor with a Cup and ring mark panel in foreground. Weetwood Moor near Wooler, Northumberland is a moor in the North of England which contains a scheduled monument.It has 26 known panels [1] of Cup and ring mark petroglyphs carved into the sandstone.
2008-07-21 16:05 TJBlackwell 1989×2562×8 (3171023 bytes) These "Cup and Ring marks", seen here in Hangingstones Quarry above Ilkley, can be found on many stones in the area. They are estimated to have been created around the time of the Bronze Age, some three to four thousand years ago.