Ryton, Cocks Site 6, cup marked stone

HER Number

585

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ryton, Cocks Site 6, 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 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.

Easting

414800

Northing

564170

Grid Reference

NZ414800564170

Sources

<< 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