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:

Site Type: Specific:
Cup and Ring Marked Stone

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

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:
142

Northing:
647

Grid Reference:
NZ142647

Lats/Lons:

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