Boulder on Bewick Hill, approx. 3 miles NNE of Powburn, Northumberland.
Found within a green wall to the E of the hillfort. This stone is pictured on the 2003 Beckensall Archive (BA) as ‘Old Bewick 3e’ and noted as having “Two cups and two faint grooves”. NADRAP Team 3 recorded the stone and added it to ERA in 2008, describing:
“Motifs could not be detected during the NADRAP survey.”
Stan Beckensall’s original 1970s drawing of Old Bewick 3e shows a rounded stone, rather than an angular one as recorded by the BA / NADRAP. Has a different stone to the original been recorded in error? Certainly the stone modelled here doesn’t show anything remotely cup-like on the surface.
NADRAP & BA info: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=1077
Model created from 5 stereo pairs captured by Joe Gibson of NADRAP Team 3 in February 2006. The imagery forms part of the full NADRAP archive deposited with Historic England & Northumberland County Council.
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