Carved area of outcrop on private land near overlooking Mere Beck, just S of Blackton Reservoir, County Durham.
This rock was discovered in the early 2000’s and was referenced ‘Blackton Reservoir 1’ on ERA by NADRAP. The team record:
‘The motifs consist of a cup and ring on the northeast corner, centrally a cup and ring have a short groove leading west to an oval cup, immediately west is a cup positioned on a fissure, just southeast of the fissure is a cup with a possible ring and further west a single cup. What is striking about this carving is the freshness of the carvings and the large size of the ‘peck’ marks contained in some of the motifs (approx 0.01m diameter)…’
ERA record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=1746
Model created from imagery captured by NADRAP Team 5 in June 2007. The imagery forms part of the NADRAP / ERA archive deposited with Historic England.
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