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Cup marked rock on slope, 480m ENE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure is a Bronze Age rock art site located in Yorkshire. The monument consists of a natural rock surface bearing cup marks, a form of prehistoric rock art created by pecking or grinding depressions into the stone surface. Cup marked rocks of this type are characteristic of Bronze Age ritual or territorial expression in upland regions of northern Britain, though the precise function and meaning of such markings remain subjects of scholarly interpretation. The site's location within Middleton Moor Enclosure places it within a landscape containing multiple prehistoric features.
Cup marked rock on slope, 480m ENE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014186. View the official record →
Cup marked rock on slope, 480m ENE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure is a Bronze Age rock art site located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014186.
Cup marked rock on slope, 480m ENE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure 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 1014186.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of five carved rocks on the western ridge of Stanbury Hill (8.9 km), Rock with shallow cup and ring-markings at the western end of the ridge on Stanbury Hill (8.9 km), Rock with dense concentration of cup marks on Stanbury Hill (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup marked rock on slope, 480m ENE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure'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 on slope, 480m ENE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.