Area of outcrop found S of The Rigg, SW of Lartington, County Durham.
This section is one of many areas of the same exposure of outcrop adorned with carvings, usually separated by either fissures or turf coverage. Referenced 6 in Beckensall & Laurie’s 2008 publication ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale and Wensleydale’, the carving was added to ERA by NADRAP in 2008. Recording the section as ‘Lartington, The Rigg 5’ the NADRAP team described:
“Motifs consist of three crudely cut large cups and five parallel conjoined cups.”
In 2008’s ‘Prehistoric Rock Art in the Northern Dales’ the carvings are better described as ‘3 cups and 5 dumbbell motifs’.
ERA record https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=934
Historic England listing: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018250
Model created from 5 stereo pairs captured by NADRAP Team 5 in July 2006. The imagery forms part of the full NADRAP archive deposited with Historic England.
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