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Cup and ring marked rock on Tod Crag is a Bronze Age rock art panel located in Northumberland. The stone bears a series of cup marks and concentric ring carvings, which represent a characteristic form of prehistoric rock art found across upland Britain during the Bronze Age period, roughly between 2000 and 500 BCE. Such markings are thought to have held ritual or ceremonial significance for the communities that created them, though their precise purpose remains subject to scholarly debate. The rock's position on the crag demonstrates the importance of elevated, prominent locations in the ritual landscape of prehistoric Northumberland.
Cup and ring marked rock on Tod Crag is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013542. View the official record →
Cup and ring marked rock on Tod Crag is a Bronze Age rock art panel located in Northumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013542.
Cup and ring marked rock on Tod Crag 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 1013542.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn, 500m north-west of Crookdene Farm (5.6 km), Medieval farmstead, 450m north east of Berry Hills (5.7 km), Ferneyrigg moated site (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and ring marked rock on Tod Crag'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 on Tod Crag stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.