Tyne and Wear HER(585): Ryton, Cocks Site 6, cup marked stone - Details
585
Gateshead
Ryton, Cocks Site 6, cup marked stone
Ryton
NZ16SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cup and Ring Marked Stone
Prehistoric
Find
In 1939 Cocks found, on his Site 6, a cup marked stone c. 40 yards south-west of Tweedy's Buildings, Ryton, where it had been re-used in making a land drain. Of coarse sandstone, its maximum length was 380 mm, and it bore 3 cups, which ranged in diameter from 41 - 63 mm, and in depth from 15 - 19 mm. The "tool pockings" were very distinct in the cups.
1480
6417
NZ14806417
<< HER 585 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
W.A. Cocks, 1947, A Cup-Marked Stone at Ryton,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, X (for 1942-46), pp. 87-88
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 19 no. 5; England's Rock Art (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era) ERA 2041