Prehistoric carved boulder found on the E side of Backstone Beck on Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire.
One of four panels found within a partially reconstructed prehistoric enclosure. Excavations within the enclosure in the mid 1980s found a hearth and flint scatters, some of which dated to the Mesolithic. Referenced IAG288 in Boughey & Vickerman’s 2003 publication ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding’, the stone was recorded ‘Backstone Beck 07’ by the CSI: Rombalds Moor Project and added to ERA in 2013.
Motifs consist of 18+ cups and broad grooves.
ERA record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/details.jsf?eraId=2549
Historic England scheduling: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1012847
Model created from 4 stereo pairs captured by Peter Butler (CSI team) in July 2012. The imagery forms part of the HLF funded CSI: Rombalds Moor / Watershed Landscape Project archive deposited with ERA.
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