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Cup and groove marked rock on flat ground south of Foldshaw Ridge, 510m SSW of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor is a prehistoric rock art monument dating to the Bronze Age. The rock surface bears a series of cup marks and groove marks, forms of rock art commonly found across the upland regions of northern England and dating typically to the second millennium before the present. Such marked rocks are interpreted as having held ritual or ceremonial significance within Bronze Age communities, though their precise function remains uncertain. The monument's location on open moorland south of Foldshaw Ridge reflects the pattern of Bronze Age activity in the Pennine uplands.
Cup and groove marked rock on flat ground south of Foldshaw Ridge, 510m SSW of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014172. View the official record →
Cup and groove marked rock on flat ground south of Foldshaw Ridge, 510m SSW of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor is a prehistoric rock art monument dating to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014172.
Cup and groove marked rock on flat ground south of Foldshaw Ridge, 510m SSW of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014172.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Small cup-marked rock on Stanbury Hill, 40m west of fork in path (8.4 km), Carved rock east of track north of Drake Hill (8.9 km), Rock with single cup near track north of Drake Hill (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and groove marked rock on flat ground south of Foldshaw Ridge, 510m SSW of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cup and groove marked rock on flat ground south of Foldshaw Ridge, 510m SSW of the shooting shelter, Middleton Moor stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.