Ryton (Clara Vale), cup marked stone
Ryton (Clara Vale), cup marked stone
HER Number
568
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Ryton (Clara Vale), cup marked stone
Place
Ryton
Map Sheet
NZ16SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Rock Art
Site Type: Specific
Cup and Ring Marked Stone
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Later Prehistoric -4,000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In addition to the flints from Site 14A, south of Clara Vale, Cocks records the discovery, on 27th February 1948, of a cup-marked stone, "with one very deep cup which appears to have been ground out. One end fractured".
Easting
414200
Northing
564700
Grid Reference
NZ414200564700
Sources
<< HER 568 >> Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2a; England's Rock Art (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era) ERA-2043
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 21 no. 9.2a; England's Rock Art (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era) ERA-2043