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Cup and grooved marked rock in tree line between New Close Quarry and Poppling Well Beck is an ancient rock art site located in Yorkshire, England. The monument consists of a natural rock surface bearing cup marks and grooves, forms of prehistoric rock art typically associated with the Bronze Age, though such carvings may span a longer chronological range. The precise dating of this particular example remains uncertain, as is common with cup and groove rock art across Britain, though the technique is recognised as a marker of prehistoric ritual or territorial significance. The site's location within a tree line near Whitbeck Manor places it within a landscape that may have held special importance in antiquity.
Cup and grooved marked rock in tree line between New Close Quarry and Poppling Well Beck, 280m south west of Whitbeck Manor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015088. View the official record →
Cup and grooved marked rock in tree line between New Close Quarry and Poppling Well Beck is an ancient rock art site located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015088.
Cup and grooved marked rock in tree line between New Close Quarry and Poppling Well Beck, 280m south west of Whitbeck Manor 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 1015088.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cup marked rock 180m north of the covered reservoir at Baildon (9.2 km), Cup and ring marked rock at Hoyle Court Drive, Charlestown (9.3 km), Prehistoric enclosure, carved rocks and orthostat wall, Buck Wood, 195m west of football ground (9.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and grooved marked rock in tree line between New Close Quarry and Poppling Well Beck, 280m south west of Whitbeck Manor'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 grooved marked rock in tree line between New Close Quarry and Poppling Well Beck, 280m south west of Whitbeck Manor stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.