It is easy to see
how this rock got its name. A medium size stone with the top part covered
in cups
- nearly fifty of them, that does indeed resemble a pepperpot although a thimble would be equally appropriate. On a lower
part of the rock there are a further seventeen cups.
I can't give exact directions to this as I had cut across the hillside from Willy Hall's Wood, but it is about 20 paces to the right of a well used track that leads uphill southeast from close to White Wells towards a small wood. There is another stone on the other side of the track that has about half a dozen faint cups.
While other cup-marked or carved rocks could be interpreted as possible maps or star charts the pattern of cups on this stone can surely only be decorative?
PRAWR = Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding (Boughey and Vickerman 2003)
See also Ilkley Moor & Rombalds Moor Introduction
Date: Bronze Age
I can't give exact directions to this as I had cut across the hillside from Willy Hall's Wood, but it is about 20 paces to the right of a well used track that leads uphill southeast from close to White Wells towards a small wood. There is another stone on the other side of the track that has about half a dozen faint cups.
While other cup-marked or carved rocks could be interpreted as possible maps or star charts the pattern of cups on this stone can surely only be decorative?
PRAWR = Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding (Boughey and Vickerman 2003)
See also Ilkley Moor & Rombalds Moor Introduction
Date: Bronze Age
Shallow cups on the top part of the rock
Deeper cups on the lower part of the rock
