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Fire reveals moor's stone legacy
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Re: They've done WHAT ???!!
Dec 21, 2004, 22:35
.....that was because the rock was earthfast....it was buried to protect it from weathering.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~geap/rart.htm

"Several examples of "rock art" are known from Gardom's Edge. A stone bearing cup and ring marks was discovered during an early excavation of a large cairn. This can now be seen in Sheffield City Museum in Weston Park. A second stone with cup and ring marks remains on the moor. The most remarkable example was identified by a team led by Leslie Butcher in the early 1960's. The design consists of a series of cup and ring marks together with a small "spiral" and two circles that enclose multiple cup marks. These were carved on a large earthfast boulder situated on a natural lynchet that follows the line of a periglacial feature."
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