Boulder on Bewick Hill, approx. 3 miles NNE of Powburn, Northumberland.
Found near other carvings to the E of the hillfort, NADRAP first noted the markings during their 2006 surveys and added the record to ERA in 2008, describing:
“A flat slab almost completely covered in turf is decorated sparingly with two definite and two shallow cups. The cup marks are centrally placed in a portion of the panel which gently slopes, and are shallow and well preserved, but no tool marks are visible…Stone might be that of George Tate 1864’s plate viii, fig 3..”
It’s worth noting the NADRAP panel sketch shows 5 rather than 4 cups, but only one looks definite on the photogrammetry and others less so. This cup may even have an irregular ring.
ERA record: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/media.jsf?eraId=1084
Model created from 4 stereo pairs captured by Joe Gibson & Keith Elliott of NADRAP Team 3 in March 2006. The imagery forms part of the full NADRAP archive deposited with Historic England & NCC.
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