Northumbrian Images Doddington Ancient Rock Art Northumberland
Discover Northumberland's fascinating gallery of mysterious rock art on a walking holiday through its inspiring landscape. Plan your visit at VisitEngland.
Lordenshaw Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
Roughting Linn is the most famous of the Northumberland rock carvings, but it would be a shame to pass by some of the less well known rock art in the area. Doddington is one of those sites that is well worth the effort and its a perfect place for a picnic as well if you've got kids in tow. Doddington is a small village on the B6525 out of Wooler.
Lordenshaw Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art Chatton (Chatton Park/Chattonpark) (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 106 images, 6 fieldnotes, 5 weblinks, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland. Image © Pebblethief Also known as:
Rock art on Weetwood Moor, Northumberland
There are certain motifs that are regularly used - straight grooves and wavy grooves, shallow circular depressions (cups), rosettes, dominoes. These marked stones have been carved into sandstone outcrops throughout Northumberland - only 3 marked rocks have been discovered in the Cheviots on rock other than sandstone.
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Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France ( Brittany ), Portugal, and Spain ( Galicia) - and in Mediterranean Europe - Italy (in Alpine valleys and Sardinia), Azerbaijan and Greece ( Thessaly [citation needed] and Irakleia (Cyclades).
The Northumberland Rock Art Carvings Dr Aron Mazel
A large rock in a remote corner of Northumberland, carved by prehistoric people with cup and ring patterns, may well have held a special place in their lives. Thousands of years later, the same rock was to prove life-changing for a teacher from Hexham out for a walk.
The Rock Art Carvings of Northumberland England
Set foot on Northumberland's incredible Iron-Age sites and mysterious ancient rock art during your trip to our historic county.
Lordenshaw Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
Prehistoric rock art of Northumberland is one of the most recognizable parts of the archaeological heritage in North-East England. This is the first of my articles about the Neolithic/Bronze Age carvings preserved in the landscape in various parts of the county.
an artistic photo of green moss growing on the side of a stone wall
Bicycle Rock - 55.54752 -1.96633. Gorse bush rock - 55.54782 -1.96745 (search carefully for the access point without damaging the gorse) Plantation Rock - 55.54847 -1.97033 (within fenced plantation) There are many theories as to the meaning or purpose of this rock art. Did they mark territories or form part of sacred or religious places?
Roughting Linn Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Pilot Project (NADRAP) was funded by English Heritage and managed by Northumberland and Durham County Councils. The project ran from 2004-2008, and involved around 100 volunteers. New recording techniques were piloted and a standardised rock art recording methodology developed.
Lordenshaw Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
The sites, which can be found in Lemmington Wood, Wellhope, Whitsunbank and Goatscrag, were declared thanks to the work of about 100 volunteers from the Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project.
The Northumberland Rock Art Carvings Dr Aron Mazel
The University of Texas at Dallas in 2018 paid $19,842 in connection with 41 holes drilled two years earlier without authorization into a rock art site on agency land just over the Nevada border.
The Northumberland Rock Art Carvings Dr Aron Mazel
England's Rock Art Durham County Council, Historic England, Northumberland County Council, Ilkley Archaeology Group, Newcastle University, 2021. Introduction "An array of mysterious symbols carved into the rock surfaces." This archive is the preserved digital products of the England's Rock Art (ERA) project.
Lordenshaw Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
Northumberland Rock Art - Ketley Cragg, Chatton Moor Hill Fort n rock art, Weetwood rock art 1.1.24.
World rock art Counties Of England, R Tattoo, Cave Paintings
Carved into rocky outcrops, boulders, standing stones, or within burial mounds, Northumberland's rock art varies from simple, circular hollows known as 'cups' to more complex intertwining patterns with cups, rings, and intertwining grooves.
Northumbrian Images Doddington Ancient Rock Art Northumberland
The Northumberland rock art includes a series of spirals and intricate concentric designs, interconnected rings, and circular cups. However, even though being one of Britain's most important collections of prehistoric art, its precise meaning still eludes researchers.