 View of the Death's Head Rock looking east over the Washburn Valley. |
| On the northern side of Snowden Carr
and a couple of hundred metres from the rocky edge of Snowden Crags is this strange
carving that can be said to resemble a skull or a face. Known as the Death's Head Rock it consists of an upside
down triangle of cup
marks with a smaller cup close to the middle. These three
larger cups are surrounded by interlinking rings with form the shape of the face,
the top two cups forming the eyes, the bottom one the mouth and the middle one a
nose. There are several other cup marked rocks close by in a damaged cairn field, one has four deep cups, while another has a large basin which could be either man made or natural. PRAWR 557 (Boughey and Vickerman. 2003. Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding.) See also Snowden Carr and Tree of Life pages. Probable Date: Bronze Age |
 Close up of the carving on the rock with inset plan. |
