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Cup marked rock in field south of Stead Hall Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art monument located in Yorkshire. The stone bears a series of cup marks, small circular depressions pecked into its surface, which represent a widespread tradition of rock art found across northern Britain during the prehistoric period. Cup marks typically date between the Neolithic and Bronze Age, though precise chronology remains uncertain. The monument survives as evidence of ritual or symbolic practice among early communities and contributes to the archaeological record of prehistoric Yorkshire.
Cup marked rock in field south of Stead Hall Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011730. View the official record →
Cup marked rock in field south of Stead Hall Farm is a Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011730.
Cup marked rock in field south of Stead Hall Farm 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 1011730.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed settlement known as `Soldier's Trench' including a cup-marked rock (7.1 km), Cup-marked rock close to road south east of a small car park south east of Bracken Hall Farm. (7.2 km), Carved bedrock close to road north east of the public toilets on Bracken Hall Green (7.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup marked rock in field south of Stead Hall Farm'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 marked rock in field south of Stead Hall Farm stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.