One of five prehistoric carved rocks found in private woodland in the Hawksworth Spring area, near Hawksworth, West Yorkshire.
Referenced IAG198 by Boughey & Vickerman in their 2003 publication ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding’, it is described as:
‘Large, flat, fairly smooth grit rock, split by tree. Seven to nine cups, five in a row and another with a partial ring.’
The CSI: Rombalds Moor project added the record ‘Hawksworth Spring 01’ to ERA in 2013, noting similar motifs.
This appears to be another example of the carver(s) placing cups on raised areas giving the impression of rings, in certain light.
ERA Record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/details.jsf?eraId=2550
Historic England scheduling: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1011743
This decimated model was created from 9 stereo pairs captured by Peter Butler (CSI team) in November 2012. The imagery forms part of the HLF funded CSI: Rombalds Moor / Watershed Landscape Project archive.
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