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Cup and ring marked rock north of Pennythorn Hill is a rock art panel of Neolithic or Bronze Age date located in Yorkshire. The monument consists of a natural rock surface decorated with cup marks and ring motifs, evidence of prehistoric ritual activity or territorial marking practices. Such rock art is characteristic of upland regions in northern Britain and typically dates from the later Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, though precise dating remains uncertain. The site contributes to archaeological understanding of prehistoric settlement patterns and symbolic practices in the Yorkshire landscape.
Cup and ring marked rock north of Pennythorn Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012684. View the official record →
Cup and ring marked rock north of Pennythorn Hill is a rock art panel of Neolithic or Bronze Age date located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012684.
Cup and ring marked rock north of Pennythorn Hill 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 1012684.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed settlement known as `Soldier's Trench' including a cup-marked rock (2.3 km), Cup-marked rock close to road south east of a small car park south east of Bracken Hall Farm. (2.4 km), Carved bedrock close to road north east of the public toilets on Bracken Hall Green (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and ring marked rock north of Pennythorn Hill'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 north of Pennythorn Hill 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.