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Rock ArtSite Name: Minera Cup StoneCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.338 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Wrexham Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Wrexham Nearest Village: Minera
Map Ref: SJ26875225
Latitude: 53.062470N Longitude: 3.092711W
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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Mike Field writes: I found the stone incidentally whilst researching the area for other purposes and I have no experience either of these oddities but they are intriguing. This one is important because I believe it is the only second one found in these parts. George Nash has had a look at this and is "excited" as the patterning is atypical. The other is the Caer Alyn stone, also verified by Prof. Nash.
Although to my knowledge there is no supporting evidence of Neolithic settlement in the Minera locality, the village lies 800 ft up in the looming shadow of the Ruabon Mountain Plateau which is identified severally as an extremely important proto Celtic burial and ritual site although the Archaeology of the plateau is self confessed not to have been done to any great extent.
Don't be alarmed as I have marked the cups with chalk only in the site images to define the pattern and this has already washed off and I have also overlaid the indentations on my PC to show that patterning. It is not discernible from the photos but whereas most are small round indentations of 1-2 cms with a depth of about the same, some marks are lozenge shapes. The stone itself is a hard local grit stone which to my knowledge does not carry and fossil and it is difficult to attribute either a natural or accidental indentation given the regularity of its patterning but what do I know!. Prof. George Nash has had a look at the images and confirms that they are "of human agency".
Just as a matter of additional interest, I attach some images too of a stone head sculpture carelessly cemented into a wall just half a mile away from here. CPAT think it could be either Roman or early Mediaeval but I would like it to be specifically Celtic!. I will be soon asking the owners of the property where they got it from.
(with thanks to Runemage for assistance with this page)
Note: New Rock Art discovery, also an intriguing carved head nearby, see the photos
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