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<< Our Photo Pages >> Minera Cup Stone - Rock Art in Wales in Wrexham

Submitted by Pryderi on Saturday, 10 July 2010  Page Views: 9116

Rock ArtSite Name: Minera Cup Stone
Country: 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:
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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Minera Cup Stone
Minera Cup Stone submitted by Pryderi : Minera Cupstone 2 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cup and Ring marks in Wrexham. The stone is located at the top of the field behind Minera Church and is a step stone for the stile there so that there is some wear. There is a group of stones at this site which are grassed over and I have not looked at them. This might have been moved from a location further down the field near the river which contains a lot more stones - some of them monumental - and some have fallen into the stream gorge.

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.

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Note: New Rock Art discovery, also an intriguing carved head nearby, see the photos
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Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head)
Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head) submitted by Pryderi : Just as a matter of additional interest, I attach some images of a stone head sculpture carelessly cemented into a wall just half a mile away from here. Wern Right (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head)
Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head) submitted by Pryderi : Just as a matter of additional interest, I attach some images of a stone head sculpture carelessly cemented into a wall just half a mile away from here. Wern Front (Vote or comment on this photo)

Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head)
Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head) submitted by Pryderi : Just as a matter of additional interest, I attach some images of a stone head sculpture carelessly cemented into a wall just half a mile away from here. Wern Left b/w (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Minera Cup Stone
Minera Cup Stone submitted by Pryderi : Minera Cupstone 4 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Minera Cup Stone
Minera Cup Stone submitted by Pryderi : Minera Cupstone 3

Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head)
Minera Cup Stone (Carved Head) submitted by Pryderi : Just as a matter of additional interest, I attach some images of a stone head sculpture carelessly cemented into a wall just half a mile away from here. Wern Top

Minera Cup Stone
Minera Cup Stone submitted by Pryderi : Minera Cupstone 1 (2 comments)

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Re: Minera Cup Stone by Anonymous on Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Hi!
This is very interesting!
I'm studying my Master's of Arts at Glyndwr. I specialise in sound and I am currently researching Minera.

It began by researching the Lead Mines history which led me to the Romans, now I'm hoping to find evidence of the Celts in the area. I've read about 'Annwn' on Ruabon mountain, very interesting.

If you have anymore information on this subject then would you please contact me via email - 22008776@cambria.ac.uk please?
The research is to support a soundscape that I want to produce of Minera's heritage. This will then possibly become a sound installation at the Lead Mines, exhibiting a soundscape of Minera's historic/ancient past. I lice in the neighbouring village of Coedpoeth. I will be setting out to find this cup stone. Fascinating. Great post.

Many Thanks,
Lyndsey Evans.
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