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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pennock Puzzle Stone - Carving in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by johndhunter on Thursday, 04 March 2021  Page Views: 779

Multi-periodSite Name: Pennock Puzzle Stone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.278 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Carving
 Nearest Village: Goathland
Map Ref: NZ8252902337
Latitude: 54.409803N  Longitude: 0.729958W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Pennock Puzzle Stone
Pennock Puzzle Stone submitted by johndhunter : Pennock Puzzle Stone at NZ 82529 02337 – East face and North sloping face (with markings on it), July 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Carving in Yorkshire (North). Located close by and to the immediate north of the 17C Lins Farm Cottage. It is a 1m high block of sandstone with an eroded grid pattern on its northern sloping face. An outlier it lies about 500 metres to the south of the main area of stone carvings at Alan Tofts (or Tops)

Its name is derived from the Pennocks, tenant farmers at Lins Farm in the 1850’s and the puzzle part from the fact that the grid pattern is likened to a gaming board. Though its origin is speculative it has similarities to carvings on a stone at NZ 82669 02875* which is in close proximity to several cairns in the area to the north, suggesting that they are from the same tradition. It is further speculated that it may have been discovered during one of the barrow openings at Alan Tofts during the nineteen century and brought to the farm as a curiosity.

Source for most of the above: Brown & Chappel, 2012, “Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors” Pages 81, 82, 253 & 254

* This stone at NZ 82669 02875 is designated ‘ALL 5a’in their book and also has cup marks on it as well as the grid pattern.. The Pennock Puzzle Stone is designated ‘ALL 13a’

Note: This stone first shows up on the 1915 OS map, see HERE When the map opens, read if required then close the pop up box which obscures it. Then zoom in towards the centre and locate Beck Hole. Then look just to the east and above the railway line you will see the farm marked Lins with the puzzle stone just marked as ‘stone’ above that. It does not show up on earlier OS maps but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there, just that it wasn’t noted like many other stones.
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Pennock Puzzle Stone
Pennock Puzzle Stone submitted by johndhunter : Pennock Puzzle Stone at NZ 82529 02337 – Viewed looking towards Lins Farm Cottage, July 2013. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pennock Puzzle Stone
Pennock Puzzle Stone submitted by johndhunter : Pennock Puzzle Stone at NZ 82529 02337 – West face and North sloping face (with markings on it), July 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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