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Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 10 January 2006  Page Views: 12550

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Middleton Moor (74) submitted by rich32 : Middleton Moor, North Yorskshire - SE1154552017 Our very own Brigantia discovered this little beauty in April this year. It was covered by turf & only the small shallow cup on the left hand side was orginally visible. We carefully uncovered the stone & revealed a rock with about 10 cups & 2 grooves. 2 of the cups are extremely deep & sharp and the lack of erosion would suggest it’s been hidde... (Vote or comment on this photo)
The North York Moors has emerged as a hidden gem for the phenomenon of rock art after a painstaking investigation spanning a decade has unearthed hundreds of examples buried under heather and gorse across the bleak landscape. Rock art researchers Paul Brown and Graeme Chappell have compiled the most comprehensive study yet of the artistry which they have discovered across the moors and published their findings in a book, Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors.

Their study has painted a graphic picture of the scale of Stone Age activity across the moors, which up until now had not featured as one of the nation's renowned areas for rock art.

While the exact meaning of the symbols, which can be etched onto rocks up to 12ft across, still remains a mystery, their legacy nonetheless provides an intriguing insight into how society existed more than four millennia ago.

Historical experts have used rock art to piece together details of Stone Age civilisation, and maintain the wealth of questions thrown up by the symbols are just as important as finding answers.
Mr Brown joined forces with Mr Chappell, who lives near Tadcaster, to spend hours walking the moors to find examples of rock art, before taking wax rubbings and transferring the details on to their archives.

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Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Anonymous on Monday, 03 September 2012
Hy im Mr roberts iv found what looks to me and the news ppl in town to be a roman man carved in to a rock i found stuck in a cliff side. Could you please help me to veary fie it for me. thank you martin.
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    Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Runemage on Monday, 03 September 2012
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    Hello Martin, that sounds interesting, what area is it in and do you have a photograph? Will it be/is it in the newspaper, if so which one? We can let you know who your local archaeologists are for verification if you let us have some more details.
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Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Anonymous on Wednesday, 11 January 2006
Many rock art styles remind me of ley energy flows. Particularly the cirlces with straight line intersecting them. Anybody else got ley info for rock art?
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    Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Baldwin on Wednesday, 29 March 2006
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    Sorry to disappoint, but in studies done by the specialists in the old ley-field, it was found that there are no linear alignments relate to cup and ring stones. A few sites with such rock art have some relationship to solar alignments, but not leys I'm afraid.
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Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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excuse my ignorance on these matters, but how does anyone go about dating such carvings ? What could possibly be used to give any idea of their age ? I assume many of these carved rocks are just lumps of natural rock, so there would be nothing from underneath the stones which could be used, as could be used for say a menhir.
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    Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Rich32 on Thursday, 12 January 2006
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    It would be fair to comment that the vast majority of carvings in this country are “presumed” to belong to the late Neolithic – Bronze Age.

    There’s a number of technical ways to determine a probable age which include measuring erosion rate, measuring uranium build up on carvings, to name but a few. All of which have been practiced on a very small number of carvings due to the expense.

    The most common method of dating is through association with material found in the vicinity, flints, tools, burials etc. On occasions, carved rocks turn up in cairns, some have been broken up & reused, so this lends itself to a fairly early date.

    New carvings when found, get lumped into the same epoch on the basis of similarity.
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    Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Anonymous on Thursday, 19 January 2006
    The only way I know is to find artefacts in the close area of the "art" . We are lucky here to have mesolithic, neolithic, and bronze tools for this method of dating to work. Many will be on show here again this year during national archaeology week in July. Arthur, Burbage,Leic`s.
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    Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Anonymous on Tuesday, 31 January 2006
    Dating follows standard archaeological methodologies.
    North yorkshire rock art is often associated with other monuments, by dating these monuments we can infer a date for many of the carvings. e.g. Many North Yorkshire burial monuments contain carved stones, the now famous 'Fylingdales Carved Stones' were found to be part of a cairn.
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    Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Anonymous on Tuesday, 23 October 2007
    'Meg and her daughters' a large menhir on the Cumbrian border has cup and ring symbols on several up rights. It has been suggested they are associated with fertility rights, but perhaps it could be simpler maybe they reflect star shine?
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Re: Stone Age rock carving research in Yorkshire by Thorgrim on Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Fascinating - but what do they mean? Any ideas?
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