Wallsend Dene, rock art

HER Number:
12699

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend Dene, rock art

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Cup and Ring Marked Stone

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C21

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
There is a cup and ring motif carved into the bedrock of the northern tributary of the Wallsend Burn called Wallsend Dene. When the dene is in spate the rock is under water. There is another motif about 10m away. Unfortunately these are not ancient rock art. Ian Hobson, a rock art enthusiast from Newcastle made them around 2000 using a carpenter's chisel. He has made similar markings at Cobalt Business Park and Rising Sun Country Park.

Easting:
305

Northing:
677

Grid Reference:
NZ305677

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
email from B. Thompson 16 September 2009; emails from Stan Beckensall, Ian Hobson and Aron Mazel (Newcastle University) 8 October 2009