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Rock ArtSite Name: Great Yorkshire Showground (Harrogate) Alternative Name: IAG556aCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.349 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Harrogate
Map Ref: SE3245353990
Latitude: 53.980955N Longitude: 1.506636W
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 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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