Carved boulder in the Millstone Cleugh area, north of Longframlington, Northumberland.
Positioned approx. 45 metres east of the main road (A697), this stone was recorded on the Beckensall Archive (BA) as ‘Millstone Burn 7b’ and added to ERA by NADRAP in 2008, who described:
“The Beckensall Archive describes one cup with a partial ring and two cups with grooves coming from them. These features could all be interpreted as natural erosion although the same effects of erosion also make it impossible to rule out any prior human-made motifs. Grooves may have resulted from water run-off from natural erosion basins. One of the depressions appears to be countersunk as it has eroded through a harder quartz layer. Similar features can be observed on a quarried rock 18m to the SE.”
ERA (& BA) record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=556
Model created from a single pair captured by NADRAP Team 2 in December 2007. The imagery forms part of the NADRAP / ERA archive.
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