Set foot on Northumberland's incredible Iron-Age sites and mysterious ancient rock art during your trip to our historic county. The rock art carvings are mostly found in the central and northern uplands © Bradshaw Foundation Dr Aron Mazel recording the rock art carvings of Northumberland, England © Bradshaw Foundation
Northumbrian Images Doddington Ancient Rock Art Northumberland
Discover Northumberland's fascinating gallery of mysterious rock art on a walking holiday through its inspiring landscape. Plan your visit at VisitEngland. Carved into rocky outcrops, boulders, standing stones, or within burial mounds, Northumberland's rock art varies from simple, circular hollows known as 'cups' to more complex intertwining patterns with cups, rings, and intertwining grooves. The Northumberland rock art includes a series of spirals and intricate concentric designs, interconnected rings, and circular cups. However, even though being one of Britain's most important collections of prehistoric art, its precise meaning still eludes researchers. Bicycle Rock - 55.54752 -1.96633. Gorse bush rock - 55.54782 -1.96745 (search carefully for the access point without damaging the gorse) Plantation Rock - 55.54847 -1.97033 (within fenced plantation) There are many theories as to the meaning or purpose of this rock art. Did they mark territories or form part of sacred or religious places?
The Rock Art Carvings of Northumberland England
Prehistoric rock art of Northumberland is one of the most recognizable parts of the archaeological heritage in North-East England. This is the first of my articles about the Neolithic/Bronze Age carvings preserved in the landscape in various parts of the county. England's Rock Art Durham County Council, Historic England, Northumberland County Council, Ilkley Archaeology Group, Newcastle University, 2021. Introduction "An array of mysterious symbols carved into the rock surfaces." This archive is the preserved digital products of the England's Rock Art (ERA) project. Now, 17 examples of rock art in Northumberland have been scheduled as Ancient Monuments by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The sites, which can be found in Lemmington Wood, Wellhope. Square shaped rock art from north Northumberland. Author provided Also in the 1990s, British archaeologist Clive Waddington proposed that the beginning of carving was linked to a new.
Lordenshaw Northumberland Rock Art Carvings
There are certain motifs that are regularly used - straight grooves and wavy grooves, shallow circular depressions (cups), rosettes, dominoes. These marked stones have been carved into sandstone outcrops throughout Northumberland - only 3 marked rocks have been discovered in the Cheviots on rock other than sandstone. Northumberland is known for its prehistoric rock art, mostly dated to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. This rock art is predominantly found on outcrops, boulders and portables, with abstract motifs carved onto them whose meanings remains a mystery. All we can be certain of is that these might be some of the oldest human-made art in the UK.
The Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Pilot Project (NADRAP) was funded by English Heritage and managed by Northumberland and Durham County Councils. The project ran from 2004-2008, and involved around 100 volunteers. New recording techniques were piloted and a standardised rock art recording methodology developed. A large rock in a remote corner of Northumberland, carved by prehistoric people with cup and ring patterns, may well have held a special place in their lives. Thousands of years later, the same rock was to prove life-changing for a teacher from Hexham out for a walk.
Rock art on Weetwood Moor, Northumberland
Roughting Linn is the most famous of the Northumberland rock carvings, but it would be a shame to pass by some of the less well known rock art in the area. Doddington is one of those sites that is well worth the effort and its a perfect place for a picnic as well if you've got kids in tow. Doddington is a small village on the B6525 out of Wooler. Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found in the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Ireland, Wales, Northern England, Scotland, France ( Brittany ), Portugal, and Spain ( Galicia) - and in Mediterranean Europe - Italy (in Alpine valleys and Sardinia), Azerbaijan and Greece ( Thessaly [citation needed] and Irakleia (Cyclades).
