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Rock ArtSite Name: High Laithe Stone (17) Alternative Name: Boughey & Vickerman (17); Hedges (SK2)Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Skipton Nearest Village: Low Snaygill
Map Ref: SD9951649914
Latitude: 53.945332N Longitude: 2.008861W
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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Rock Art in Yorkshire (North)
This cup and ring stone, built into a stone wall, is featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for the High Laithe Stone, Skipton, North Yorkshire. TNA give directions for finding the stone together with a photograph and a brief archaeology & history.
TNA tells us: "First described by Messrs Hartley and Radley in the Yorkshire Archaeological Register of 1968, this small “standing stone”, less than three-feet tall, has a distinct cup-and-double- ring carved onto its upright north-facing edge. The outline of the carving is visible even in bad light, though you might wanna rest and gaze for a minute or two for yourself and the lighting to adjust if it’s a grey day. There’s another cup-marking below the bottom right of the double-ring, with another ‘possible’ just above ground-level."
The stone is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 46255, which has two entries, the first saying: "A limestone block found in 1968 set in the base of a gritstone field wall at Skipton, has a cup marking with three concentric rings." A second entry corrects this to: "Limestone rock with large shallow cup surrounded by two uneven shallow rings. One oval cup. Found in 1968." Pastscape also makes reference to a second nearby rock at SE 99404975. "Large grit rock with eleven cups, circle of nine very small cups and grooves. Situated on grassy bank above Suay Gill."
This cup and ring marked stone is also scheduled - see Historic England List ID 1014981, which adds: "This is not the rock's original position, but it is not thought to have been moved far. The carving consists of three cups, one of which has one complete ring and a part ring."
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