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Rock ArtSite Name: Simonside Moor Alternative Name: ERA-1256; Beckensall 874Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Rothbury Nearest Village: Simonside
Map Ref: NU0120000100
Latitude: 55.295011N Longitude: 1.982649W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Rock Art in Northumberland
The exact location of this rock art panel has been withheld at the request of the landowner, although it is recorded as being on Open Access land. It is described by NADRAP as being on a large boulder relocated in a depression formed by past quarrying of bell pit extraction. The motif is complex combining groups of cups, large shallow cups, linear and linking grooves, a large oculus - groove and penannular. Peck marks were observed in different areas some indicating incompleteness in the motif design.
For more information see England's Rock Art entry for ERA-1256 Simonside Moor, which includes NADRAP's notes, Beckensall's description, photographs, a panoramic photograph, a sketch of the rock and its motifs, plus photogrammetry, a VRML model, a QTVR model and media from the Beckensall Archive.
The original Beckensall record can be found at Internet Archive: Beckensall 874 Simonside Moor.
This rock art panel is located on Open Access land [note: Beckensall records this panel as being on private land - seek landowner permission].
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