Prehistoric carved boulder on Goldsborough Rigg, Cotherstone Moor, W of Cotherstone, County Durham.
Referenced 1 in the Goldsborough section of the 1998 publication ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale and Wensleydale’ this stone was added to ERA as ‘Goldsborough Rigg 1’ in 2008. The NADRAP team recorded:
‘Motifs consist of fifteen single cups scattered about the stone centrally and on the north and west edges, in the centre a group of four cups with rings (some incomplete) join each other, a further five cups also have rings and one northern cup has a short groove leading to the edge.’
Historic England listing: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1016598
ERA record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=1711
Model created from 6 stereo pairs captured by Jeff Lynn (NADRAP Team 5) in June 2007. The imagery forms part of the NADRAP / ERA archive deposited with Historic England.
The stone was also laser scanned during NADRAP.
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