Prehistoric Rock Art – Eston Moor

Barningham Moor

Light constantly changes as weather moves rapidly from the west

 A stoat tracks my progress across the moor

The ruins of an ancient settlement can be found in the bracken

An ancient cairn, four millennia of beaten bounds

The reliable instability of limestone – the stone circle slowly sinking, the gill slowly growing

Eel Hill – scrying stone

Brotton – Howe Hill

William Hornsby and Richard Stanton excavated a large mound on Kilton Lane known as Howe Hill. The lane runs through the east side of the mound and Hornsby records that material had previously been removed from the summit of the mound to facilitate ploughing. The pair discovered a couple of graves, one of which contained unburned bones and the remains of a hollowed-out tree trunk. A number of cup marked cobbles and a large cup and ring marked stone were also found. It is not unusual to find cup marked stones in coastal barrows, however prehistoric log burials are quite rare, only about 60 have been recorded in the UK.

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. XXIV. 1918

Rock Art – Barningham Moor

Geometries

Mayburgh Henge – Long Meg and Her Daughters – The Maughanby Circle (Little Meg) – St. Michaels Church, Addingham.

 

Urban Megaliths

Modern Prehistoric Rock Art and a Shap Granite Glacial Erratic.

Pannett Park, Whitby.

shap granite erratic – Pannett Park, Whitby

Eston Moor Cup & Ring Stones

Amidst the burnt-out cars and fly-tippings,

the hand of the ancestors.