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The rock with cup marks on Foldshaw Ridge, Middleton Moor, is a prehistoric carved stone featuring incised cup-shaped depressions on its south-east face. Located at approximately 860 metres east-south-east of Wards End at an elevation of 860 metres, the monument represents evidence of Bronze Age rock art practised in the Pennine uplands. Cup marks of this type are among Britain's earliest artistic expressions, typically dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, though their precise chronology remains uncertain. The survival of such marked rocks on exposed moorland demonstrates the significant ritual or territorial importance of this location in antiquity.
Rock with cup marks in south east face near grouse butts on Foldshaw Ridge 860m ESE of Wards End, Middleton Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020276. View the official record →
The rock with cup marks on Foldshaw Ridge, Middleton Moor, is a prehistoric carved stone featuring incised cup-shaped depressions on its south-east face. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020276.
Rock with cup marks in south east face near grouse butts on Foldshaw Ridge 860m ESE of Wards End, Middleton Moor 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 1020276.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Small cup-marked rock on Stanbury Hill, 40m west of fork in path (8.5 km), Carved rock east of track north of Drake Hill (9 km), Rock with single cup near track north of Drake Hill (9 km).
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Rock with cup marks in south east face near grouse butts on Foldshaw Ridge 860m ESE of Wards End, Middleton Moor stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.