wiccaman9

RAMSOR FARM, not Ramshorn Farm, as stated above.

As stated by Stubob, cup marked stone and channel/groove, with concentric rings.

Like a quarter of an oval stone, the ‘squared off corner’ having an obvious area with 2 concentric arcs, ie. a quarter of another cup and ringed structure... clearly this stone is part of something much bigger.

The curved edges seems to be deliberately manmade such that I believe it to be part of an oval cist slab, with multiple cup and ring and simple cup marked areas of rock-art.

I’ve had the chance to examine the stone very thoroughly, measurements taken, recorded accurately, to photograph from all angles with oblique lighting, etc

Added in 3 images of the large stone slab with numerous simple cup marks.

Resides in Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (PMAG), Hanley, Stoke on Trent

Awful lighting... 1 dim light at 90 degrees to the cup marks! – needs some decent side lighting, or the stone erected vertically, to appreciate the cup marks.

Been repeatedly used, marked upon, as feint cup depressions visible as well as the more obvious ones.

Added simply as a site to gather thoughts and images relating to the large burial cairn-field -’cemetery’, largely found between barbrook I and barbrook II SC’s.

Visible either side of the track between the SC’s, but 1-2 ‘outsider’ rocky bumps exist also.

Kerbed cairns in part, some more simple in design, MOST are robbed out, some quite extensively so, forming neat little ‘halos’ upon the grounds’ surface

It’s a great shame that some of the best Rock Art in Derbyshire is sitting in such an overgrown, wet quagmire, ...as were the conditions I found the stones within, last Summer.

The stones were so algal covered and half buried in mud and vegetation, such a pity.

Scraping the algae and leaves away – the stones are of considerable size.

There is a great pity more stones were not discovered in the vicinity.

They were likely taken away and destroyed, the two stones remaining being discovered by accident

New photograph, showing well defined ditches in a near circle.. there is a defined flattened area and a perceived entrance

Pictures included of both areas of rock art.

The main rock-art image appears almost like an iron-age banjo enclosure, with numerous bulbous structures in positive relief within.

Interpretations vary, but I am of the opinion that the positive relief ‘mounds’ represent the neighbouring hills (Win hill, Crook hill, Ladybower Tor and the raised areas of Bamford moor to the East), the grooves within, effectively represent the Rivers Ashop and Derwent, and small river from accumulations of water from areas north of Moscar Moor (to the East)

The rock art seems to represent the hills and valleys and rivers before the formation of the Ladybower reservoir...in effect ‘a map’ in the truest sense.

additional images included of the extra ring-marked art...

cheers

Aron

Stone within a wall near the Moor at Holymoorside, and it’s associated cup/ring marked boulder.

2 cup marks visible albeit the one on the right rather ‘knocked about’/damaged.

Left cup mark, well ground out, rounded 48mm diameter and quite deep, slight pock marked.

Stone rather pallid in appearance cf. other stones of the wall, more in keeping with the dense, pallid, gritstone of the nearby multi- cup-marked boulder, on the moor.
A contemporary cup marked stone?, perhaps one of many such decorated stones, of a presumed burial cairn, long since decimated, the large boulder now being part of a very obvious ‘clearance’ cairn.

Stone lined grave, robbed out.

Large natural boulder has been cut flat along one edge and several upright flattened stones have been added, at right-angles to form a reasonable sized cist.
One of the ‘walls’ has slumped a little into the cavity between.

Upon a well worn pathway exists a large flat boulder, with many well defined cup marks.

If you think they are all ‘natural’, I would argue that such linear and equilateral triangular designs seem more man made.

50pence coin gives the scale, and also the possibility of more worn, possible older carvings – highlighted in yellow on the attached images

Cheers

Aron

A large boulder with deep multiple cup marked upon it.
NOT nr. the traditional areas of rock art, quite distinct, but VERY obvious.

OS reference with-held currently in view of sensitive sites and many new areas of rock art I have discovered in Derbyshire of recent, being in areas potentially prone to vandalism and/or theft

20 pence coin to give scale