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Rock with one cup mark 860m ENE of Wards End, Langbar Moor is a Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art site located on the moorland of West Yorkshire. The monument consists of a natural rock surface bearing a single cup mark, a form of prehistoric rock carving characteristic of upland regions in northern Britain during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. Cup marks, small circular depressions pecked into rock surfaces, remain among the earliest forms of symbolic expression recorded in the archaeological record, though their precise ritual or functional significance continues to be debated by scholars. The site's remote moorland location places it within a broader landscape of prehistoric activity in the Pennine region.
Rock with one cup mark 860m ENE of Wards End, Langbar Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014169. View the official record →
Rock with one cup mark 860m ENE of Wards End, Langbar Moor is a Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art site located on the moorland of West Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014169.
Rock with one cup mark 860m ENE of Wards End, Langbar 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 1014169.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Group of five carved rocks on the western ridge of Stanbury Hill (8.6 km), Rock with shallow cup and ring-markings at the western end of the ridge on Stanbury Hill (8.6 km), Rock with dense concentration of cup marks on Stanbury Hill (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Rock with one cup mark 860m ENE of Wards End, Langbar Moor's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Rock with one cup mark 860m ENE of Wards End, Langbar Moor stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.