Green
Crag Slack
Bronze Age Cairns and Rock Carvings (including PRAWR
325)
Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire OS Map Ref SE133460
OS Maps - Landranger 104 (Leeds & Bradford), Explorer 297 (Lower Wharfedale
& Washburn Valley)
Carved rock 325 - The Idol Stone is just along the track. |
Green Crag Slack is a strip of land
about a mile and a half in length below Green Crag and Woofa Bank on the northeast
of Rombalds Moor. There are many carved
stones within this area including the Idol
Stone and the Pancake Rock as
well as the damaged remains of cairns
and settlement or enclosure walls although most are so mutilated as to be unrecognisable.
The grid reference given at the top of the page is for the large unnamed boulder shown here (PRAWR 325). It stands next to the track that leads up to Green Crag and has several cups, one with a clear ring and several angular grooves although some of them may be natural. PRAWR = Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding (Boughey and Vickerman 2003) See also Ilkley Moor & Rombalds Moor Introduction Date: Bronze Age |
Cup, ring and groove markings on the rock - water added for clarity |
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