Tasse Bague et Pierre, droit de la Défense, près de Doddington, Northumberland

• Contributeur: Brownlow Brothers / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: A4HBCA
• Taille du fichier: 69,9 MB (6,4 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 5482 x 4459 px | 46,4 x 37,8 cm | 18,3 x 14,9 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 7 décembre 2003
• Lieu: Dod Law, Doddington, Northumberland

Informations supplémentaires

This cup and ring stone is one of the many discovered cut into sandstone outcrops on Dod Law and surrounding hills. Occasional examples are also found on small rocks used in round barrows and turning up in field clearance cairns. These cup and ring marks are on an outcrop with other markings that are covered by turf but which have been recorded during excavation. It is close to an Iron Age hill fort which dominates the escarpment above the Milfield Plain. The markings on the rock probably predate the hill fort by many centuries as it is thought that they were made in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age and are between 3000 and 5000 years old. The hill fort probably dates to about 300 BC.

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