Football Cairn D (Dec 2007)

Description

Boulder near Glitteringstone, 1200 metres NW of Rothbury, Northumberland. This boulder can be found approx. 175 metres NE of the Football Cairn. Referenced on the Beckensall Archive (BA) as ‘Football Cairn D’, the record was added to ERA by NADRAP in 2008. Team 3 describe: “Small panel sitting among larger blocks on the hillside, well-covered with cups in variety of size and depth. An upper ridge is formed by cups and joined cups, but no evidence of cups on other side and no distinguishable pattern to random cup marks. All cups are well-rounded.” ERA & BA info: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/panel/overview.jsf?eraId=1158 Model created from 6 stereo pairs captured by Joe Gibson of NADRAP Team 3 in December 2007. The imagery forms part of the full NADRAP archive deposited with Historic England & Northumberland County Council.