Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/263 |
Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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Title | Carved rock on ridge overlooking Woofa Bank |
Description | Small earthfast rock at possible entrance to robbed cairn, its NE face carved with cups and grooves, some very faint. About thirteen cups and two grooves. Description from the English Heritage Scheduled Monument Notification for SAM no 25308 (25/08/1995); The monument includes a carved gritstone rock and a small disturbed cairn on a ridge at Lanshaw overlooking Woofa Bank. The carved rock is 0.7m x 0.4m x 0.3m in size and is earthfast at the eastern edge of the cairn. The carving consists of a number of faint cups and grooves on the north eastern face. The cairn is sub circular c.4m in diameter, 0.6m in height, with a central depression which is thought to be the result of an excavation. |
Date | 20th century |
Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
Level | Item |