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Rock ArtSite Name: Wycoller Cup-marked Stones Alternative Name: The Wycoller StonesCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Colne Nearest Village: Wycoller
Map Ref: SD931393
Latitude: 53.849888N Longitude: 2.106367W
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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FrothNinja visited A mixture of natural & post medieval holes, very unlikely to be prehistoric due to shape & size of stones into which they are set & the general setting itself.
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Several of the moss covered large stones (coping stones) that line the top of the pack-horse bridge have cup-marks, making them prehistoric in date.
They were probably built into the old bridge in the 13th-15th century when the bridge was built. A word of caution here, the pack-horse bridge is quite smooth and often slippery to cross due to hundreds of years of wear.
By the side of the bridge, close to the ruined hall, a small glacial erratic limestone boulder also has some cup-marks in it. This, and others in the village, were deposited here thousands of years ago by a retreating/melting Ice Age flow from the Lake District. Other glacial boulders can be seen in a field close by.
Another point of interest in the little village is the Clam Bridge which spans Wycoller Beck. The huge long slab is thought to be prehistoric. It may well have originally been a standing stone that stood on the moors to the NE. (More about that in due course).
Update January 2018: The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for these cup marked stones - see their entry for Wycoller Bridge, Trawden, Lancashire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with a drawing of the cup marks on the stones from 1962, a description and local folklore. TNA adds: "four of the stones have cup-markings etched onto them. It seems that at least three of the carvings are archaic; cups on one of them seems somewhat deep and appears to be medieval. A short article describing them was in the Bradford Cartwright Hall Archaeology Bulletin (1962) where they were just as puzzled about them. In 1979, J.A. Heginbottom described them in his survey on the prehistoric rock-art of upper Calderdale. The stones on which the cups were carved may have been taken from a prehistoric tomb on the edge of the moor further up the valley from here."
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