Death's
Head Rock
Bronze Age Rock Carving (PRAWR 577)
Snowden Carr, North Yorkshire OS
Map Ref SE17805124
OS Maps - Landranger 104 (Leeds & Bradford), Explorer 297 (Lower Wharfedale
& Washburn Valley)
![]() View of the rock looking east over the Washburn Valley |
![]() Close up of the carving |
![]() Plan of the carving |
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. 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 2 cups forming the eyes, the bottom one the mouth and the middle one a
nose. PRAWR = Prehistoric Rock Art of the
West Riding (Boughey and Vickerman 2003) |
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