Hartleyburn Common 5

3D Model

Lichen encrusted boulder on Hartleyburn Common, south of Blenkinsop Castle in Northumberland.

Oddly, not recorded on the Beckensall Archive, this stone was added to ERA by NADRAP in 2008 as ‘Hartleyburn Common 5’. The NADRAP team recorded:

“This small stone measures 0.83 x 0.61 metres and has a busy design carved on its south to north sloping face. The motifs consist of approx 15 single cups scattered about the surface, 10 cups with single rings, some of which are joined, and a further four cups possibly with rings or partial rings. A number of short grooves may also connect motifs, but the busy design makes this difficult to determine.”

They also made some observations about the stone placement in relation to cairns and possible cultivation.

ERA Record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=749 Model created from a single stereo pair captured during NADRAP recording in March 2008.

The imagery forms part of the NADRAP / ERA archive.