Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 134 440
Archaeology & History
During a walk I did with a small group of people in the Spring of 2024, after a series of heavy rainfalls we ended up having to veer on and off the footpath to ensure we didn’t get swallowed in one of the bogs! In doing so, one of the group, Sarah Walker, noticed a small, almost portable-sized stone sticking up out of the edge of a peat-bog with a very distinct single cup-marking on it. (it may have been on its way as an offering stone to the Little Skirtful cairn) Sarah twizzzled it round a few times in the mud so we could get some good photos of it before we went on our way to the circle at Horncliffe. We didn’t get an exact position for the stone, but it can be found somewhere roughly over halfway between Roms Law and Horncliffe, not far off the path. Good luck!
Acknowledgements: Big thanks to Sarah Walker for stumbling across and uncovering this cup-marking, deep in the moorland mud.
© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian
