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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 ...
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.
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.
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Sketch by W. A. Donnelly (dated 1895) of the Cup & Ring marks on the Cochno Stone. Published by John Bruce in 1896 Detail sketched by James Harvey of Duntocher in 1889. The Cochno Stone is a large cup and ring marked rock at Auchnacraig, Faifley, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, [1] next to the Cochno farm. [2]
English: Single cups and cups with with concentric rings at the Mauchline site in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The vertical carving surface is unusual and although soft the red sandstone carvings may be Neolithic in origin.
The images are scratched a few millimetres into the stone. On account of the low relief, many images are difficult to make out. Only cup and ring marks have a depth of multiple centimetres. In brittle granite and gneiss, the edges are always broken, but the reason for this is not clear. As a rule it is not possible to determine whether images ...
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.