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Cup and ring marked rock 40m south east of Hillcourt, Rawdon is a Bronze Age rock art site located in West Yorkshire. The monument consists of a natural rock surface decorated with cup marks and ring carvings, a form of prehistoric rock art characteristic of the Bronze Age period in northern Britain. Such cup and ring marked rocks are amongst the earliest monumental expressions in the archaeological record, typically dating from the second millennium BCE, and their precise ritual or symbolic function remains subject to scholarly interpretation. The site represents an important example of this widespread tradition of rock art found across upland and moorland regions of Yorkshire and the wider north of England.
Cup and ring marked rock 40m south east of Hillcourt, Rawdon is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016267. View the official record →
Cup and ring marked rock 40m south east of Hillcourt, Rawdon is a Bronze Age rock art site located in West Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016267.
Cup and ring marked rock 40m south east of Hillcourt, Rawdon 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 1016267.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cup marked rock in Calverley Wood, 200m north east of junction of Calverley Cutting and Thornhill Drive (1.4 km), Prehistoric enclosure, carved rocks and orthostat wall, Buck Wood, 195m west of football ground (2.7 km), Gritstone pillar with three cup marks in the north pavement of the A65 at Horsforth, 440m south east of the roundabout at Low Fold (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and ring marked rock 40m south east of Hillcourt, Rawdon's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cup and ring marked rock 40m south east of Hillcourt, Rawdon stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.