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Cup and ring marked rock in Dawson Wood, 370 metres north east of Heaton Shay, is a Bronze Age rock art site in Yorkshire. The stone bears a series of cup marks and associated ring motifs, characteristic of prehistoric rock carvings found across northern Britain, typically dated to the Bronze Age period. Such marked rocks remain among the most enigmatic monuments of prehistoric Britain, and their precise ritual or symbolic function continues to be debated by archaeologists. The site represents an important example of the rock art tradition that flourished in the upland regions of the Pennines during the second millennium BC.
Cup and ring marked rock in Dawson Wood, 370m north east of Heaton Shay is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015616. View the official record →
Cup and ring marked rock in Dawson Wood, 370 metres north east of Heaton Shay, is a Bronze Age rock art site in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015616.
Cup and ring marked rock in Dawson Wood, 370m north east of Heaton Shay 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 1015616.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cup marked rock 60m south west of the War Memorial at Crowgill Park (1.2 km), Cup-marked bedrock near Old Glen House (2.3 km), Cup-marked rock between road and public toilets at Bracken Hall Green (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and ring marked rock in Dawson Wood, 370m north east of Heaton Shay'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 ring marked rock in Dawson Wood, 370m north east of Heaton Shay stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.