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Rock ArtSite Name: Great Yorkshire Showground (Harrogate) Alternative Name: IAG556a
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Harrogate
Map Ref: SE3245353990
Latitude: 53.980955N  Longitude: 1.506636W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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
5
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Rock Art in Yorkshire (North)

This rock art panel was first reported in 2010, and is on a large, conspicuous gritstone rock close to a pair of ponds in the Great Yorkshire Showground. Now recorded in Boughey & Vickerman's "Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding Supplement (2018)", page 205 & 206. B&V narrow the location of the rock down for saying, adding: "(it is 2m inside the perimeter fence of a specially set aside are for flying fishing and a few metres from a mock shooting butt".

The panel carries a recent metal-tooled cut basin, with two series of 9 cup-like depressions and 6 other cups, 4 of which are possibly artificial. All the cups are very worn, but "not the result of the erosion of lost quartz pebbles as the rock matrix has none".

The Supplement includes a photograph showing the location of the rock together with a close up of the recent basin and cups and a drawing of the panel.

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