Boulder on private farmland south of Fontburn Reservoir, 5 miles south of Rothbury, Northumberland.
Thought to be a new find during NADRAP surveys, this carving was added to ERA in 2008 as ‘Fontburn N01’. NADRAP Team 3 describe:
“Panel lies on a slight slope of a natural small watercourse with other loosely collected stones evident nearby and close to the valley side leading to the reservoir…Range of cup size and depth, line of three distinct independent cups. Largest is central. Adjacent is another large cup 0.07m. Most cups are grouped to one side of the panel near edge Photogrammetry shows other slight cup-like depressions elsewhere.”
The grid reference given for this panel on ERA is 800 metres out.
ERA info: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=1360
Model created from 5 stereo pairs captured by Joe Gibson of NADRAP Team 3 in June 2006. The imagery forms part of the full NADRAP archive deposited with Historic England & Northumberland County Council.
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