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Rock with one cup mark 200m north of Low Hood Gap, Heyshaw, is a Bronze Age rock art monument consisting of a single cup mark pecked into the natural rock surface. The cup mark represents a form of prehistoric rock art common to upland areas of northern England, typically dating to the Bronze Age period, though exact chronology remains uncertain. Such isolated cup marks are thought to have held ritual or territorial significance for the communities who created them, though their precise function remains a matter of archaeological interpretation. The monument survives as evidence of early human activity and artistic expression in the Yorkshire uplands during prehistory.
Rock with one cup mark 200m north of Low Hood Gap, Heyshaw is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015099. View the official record →
Rock with one cup mark 200m north of Low Hood Gap, Heyshaw, is a Bronze Age rock art monument consisting of a single cup mark pecked into the natural rock surface. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015099.
Rock with one cup mark 200m north of Low Hood Gap, Heyshaw 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 1015099.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rock with three groove and three cup marks in base of wall east of track and 50m south of High Hood Gap, Heyshaw (0.1 km), Rock with cup, ring and groove marks in the west side of Guisecliff Wood, 420m south east of Far High Westcliff (1.1 km), Rock with complex pattern of cup, ring and groove marks in wall 250m south of Far High Westcliff (1.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Rock with one cup mark 200m north of Low Hood Gap, Heyshaw's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Rock with one cup mark 200m north of Low Hood Gap, Heyshaw stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.