Outcrop in the Crag Hill area,1.5 miles SW of Lartington, County Durham.
1st recorded by Dennis Coggins, this stone is included in the county archives. It was added to ERA by NADRAP in 2008 as ‘Crag Hill’. The team recorded:
“The motifs consist of five possible cup marks of varying size and depth, the largest having a 0.1m diameter. A certain amount of water erosion has taken place on the stone, revealing narrow bedding layers which can also be seen in the cups. It would be difficult to say with any degree of certainty that human hand has created these rather than nature. However, the pattern they form, their proximity to definite carved areas around The Rigg and the Loups’s, make the artificial nature of these cups a distinct possibility.”
ERA Record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=980
Model created from 3 photos captured by NADRAP team 5 in February 2008. The imagery forms part of the NADRAP / ERA archive.
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