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***SWAAG_ID***	322
Date Entered	09/11/2011
Updated on	10/11/2011
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Rock Art
Record Type	Archaeology
Site Access	Private
Record Date	01/01/2005
Location	Whashton. Aske Moor
Civil Parish	Richmond
Brit. National Grid	Hidden
Geology	Boulder clay and moraines
Record Name	Aske Moor. Cup and ring marked rock.
Record Description	Boulder decoratd with finely executed cup and rings.
Dimensions	See photograph
Additional Notes	This record is of a superbly decorated glacial boulder which once surely was incorporated within a burial mound now quarried away. Very many of the surviving round barrow mounds of Teesdale, Swaledale and Wensleydale have small decorated rocks included within the body of the mound. When quarried away these decorated rocks are exposed and sometimes removed or incorporated in 18C dry stone walls. These rocks can be fragments from larger rock surfaces which may already have been of great age. More often they were specially made and deposited within the burial cairn presumably during the funerary rites. The frquent deposition of small cup and ring marked rocks within burial mounds of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date provides the basis for attribution od this date to cup and ring marking generally. However, this does not take account of the fact that simple cup marks have been found beneath excavated burial monuments of Early Neolithic Date and also that that fragments of previously decorated rocks already potentially of great age are included within Early Bronze Age burial mounds.
Image 1 ID	1184 Click image to enlarge
Image 1 Description	The decorated boulder.