Cup and ring marks Prehistoric rock art Routin Roughting Roughtling Lynn


Cup and ring marks Prehistoric rock art Routin Roughting Roughtling Lynn near Wooler Berwick upon Tweed Northumberland England UK The Roughting Linn cup and ring sign Cut into sandstone outcrop close to an iron age hillfort the markings probably predate the hillfort by many centuries as they are thought to be made in the late neolithic or early Bronze Age making them between 3000 and 5000 years old Discovered in 1852 by William Greenwell


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