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Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation is a prehistoric rock art monument located on Feldom Rigg in Yorkshire. The stone bears cup and ring carvings, a form of pecked rock art characteristic of the Bronze Age, though such motifs may have earlier origins in the Neolithic period. Cup and ring marks, consisting of circular depressions surrounded by concentric rings, are found across northern Britain and remain enigmatic in purpose, though they may have held ritual, territorial, or astronomical significance. The stone's survival in situ on the moorland landscape preserves evidence of Bronze Age artistic and possibly ceremonial activity in the region.
Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014366. View the official record →
Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation is a prehistoric rock art monument located on Feldom Rigg in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014366.
Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg 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 1014366.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval cross base known as Plague Stone, 750m WSW of High Scales (4.5 km), Romano-British enclosed settlement 340m north east of East Applegarth at Whitcliffe Scar (4.6 km), Packhorse bridge (5.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg'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 stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.