York Museum Stone
The York Museum Stone is a Bronze Age stone of unknown origin, with petroglyphs on top.
It is believed to originate from the Robin Hood's Bay area , about 60 miles away, and was introduced to the York Philosophical Society in 1895 by a certain Canon Raines. The size and shape of the block suggest that it was cut from an outcrop to form the curb of a barrow or cairn or the capstone of a stone box .
The Bronze Age design consists of six cup-and-ring markings , i.e. small bowls surrounded by one or more concentric rings. The central motif has three rings and a fine groove to the outside (from the cup English cup running). Three other bowls seem to have fewer rings and slightly shorter grooves.
Location
The stone is in the garden of the Yorkshire Museum in York 
literature
- Paul M. Brown & Graeme Chapell: Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors . The History Press 2012, ISBN 9780752468778
Individual evidence
- ↑ This stone is numbered ROB2A in Chappell & Brown's 'Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors' 2005 (PRANYM) and may have been one of the stones that were removed from the Ravenscar area to the grounds of what is now the Raven Hall Hotel before the collection was 'lost' for over a hundred years.