One of several small prehistoric carved rocks found in a private plantation to the E of Rivock Edge on the SW end of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire. Sitting immediately next to ‘Rivock 07’, this rock was recorded ‘Rivock 08’ by the CSI: Rombalds Moor project in 2012. Boughey & Vickerman ref the stone IAG 51 in their 2003 publication ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding’, describing:
‘Small rock. Four cups.’
CSI recorded four cups, noting two were joined. They also describe the linear groove clearly visible on this model as a ‘fissure’. The feature doesn’t look particularly natural here. Once again, the carver(s) appear to have placed at least one cup in a raised area, possibly utilising the natural morphology of the rock to give the appearance of a ring, in some light.
This decimated model was created from 8 stereo pairs captured by Peter Butler (CSI Team) in June 2013. The imagery forms part of the HLF funded CSI: Rombalds Moor / Watershed Landscape Project archive.
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