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<< Image Pages >> Blue Scar (Arncliffe) - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by Anne T on Wednesday, 02 August 2017  Page Views: 3365

Multi-periodSite Name: Blue Scar (Arncliffe)
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Grassington  Nearest Village: Arncliffe
Map Ref: SD93237100
Latitude: 54.134799N  Longitude: 2.105108W
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.
 3 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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The Arncliffe Carving
The Arncliffe Carving submitted by Brigantia : Do you know the whereabouts of the lost Arncliffe Carving? Paul Bennett writes: This is a frustrating site entry. Not only do we not know where it is, this carving is not listed in any of the modern books on British petroglyphs, yet it was described and referenced by the famous archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes in 1934. After a brief mention of the carving in Frank Elgee’s (1933) Archaeology of Y... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Two sites for the 'price' of one here - do you know the whereabouts of the lost carving, found in a stream near Arncliffe village (North Yorkshire) in the 1930s - click on the image for more details. Also details of an Iron Age settlement situated on a plateau south of Arncliffe. Consisting of a small rectangular and a circular chamber, within two enclosures, linked by a sunken road to a 'Celtic' field system.

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this carving - see their entry for Arncliffe, Littondale, North Yorkshire, which includes a drawing of the carving, together with a description the carving and where it was found.

Historic England have a record for Blue Scar, Site ID 1004123 but this says that they only currently have paper records available for this scheduled site.

Source: Pastscape Monument No. 47163. This Pastscape record describes in detail this "complex of enclosures and hut circles and a field system, probably an Iron Age/Romano-British settlement. This site was probably partially reused for sheepfolds in the Medieval period with the addition of rectangular structures. Possible Prehistoric cairn. Scheduled."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also have a page for the settlement - see their entry for Blue Scar Settlement, Arncliffe, North Yorkshire, where they have directions on how to find the site, a drawing of the main part of the settlement from 1929 (reproduced here with thanks), and a section on the archaeology and history of the settlement.

Note: The Arncliffe Carving
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Blue Scar (Arncliffe)
Blue Scar (Arncliffe) submitted by Brigantia : Drawing of main part of the settlement, from Raistrick, Arthur & Chapman, S.E., ‘The Lynchet Groups of Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire,’ in Antiquity, volume 3, 1929. With thanks to Paul Bennett at The Northern Antiquarian (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SD9370 : Blue Scar, Littondale by Les Hull
by Les Hull
©2006(licence)
SD9271 : Arncliffe - Summer by Mick Armitage
by Mick Armitage
©2006(licence)
SD9271 : Valley formed by Cowside Beck by Chris Heaton
by Chris Heaton
©2009(licence)
SD9271 : Ascending Monks Road near Arncliffe by Chris Heaton
by Chris Heaton
©2009(licence)
SD9271 : Monk's Road descending towards Arncliffe by Bill Boaden
by Bill Boaden
©2012(licence)

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Re: Blue Scar (Arncliffe) by Anne T on Sunday, 14 January 2018
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This site needs splitting into two separate pages - one for the carving and one for the settlement. Problem is the grid references are the same! Will work on this one and come back to this page shortly, unless everyone is happy with this page as it stands?
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Do you know the whereabouts of the lost Arncliffe Carving? by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 August 2017
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Paul Bennett from The Northern Antiquarian writes: This is a frustrating site entry. Not only do we not know where it is, this carving is not listed in any of the modern books on British petroglyphs, yet it was described and referenced by the famous archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes in 1934. After a brief mention of the carving in Frank Elgee’s (1933) Archaeology of Yorkshire, an article describing the carving was penned in the journal Man, from which I draw the only information available. It appears to have been found in the early 1930s (no date or discoverer is cited), but has a couple of peculiarities which may bring the authenticity of the stone into question. Mrs Hawkes (1934) told that the carved stone was,

“found in the bed of a moorland beck in the village of Arncliffe, Littondale, West Riding of Yorkshire. It is of buff-coloured limestone measuring 21 inches x 12 inches x 6 inches in thickness; the decorated surface is almost flat. The curvilinear pattern is executed in regular incisions about 4mm wide and 3mm deep; portions of it have been obliterated by water actions and, as is illustrated in the illustration, at one end the surface has broken away altogether. The whole stone has been much battered and may well be only a fragment of a much larger one. The state of preservation suggested that it had been in the stream for a considerable period; it is therefore probable that it was washed down from the open moorland above Arncliffe. In the original (carving), the design is more coherent than it here appears owing to the fact that in the water-worn portions faint lines are visible to the eye which cannot be shown on a tracing."

If anyone knows more about this site, particularly its whereabouts (perhaps in private possession or hiding in some museum box, where increasing numbers of cup-and-rings are wrongfully kept), or whether the ‘carving’ has been disregarded as little more than natural weathering, it would be good to know for certain.

Read more at The Northern Antiquarian
https://megalithix.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/arncliffe-north-yorkshire/
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