Turf Knowe c

This small cobble was removed to Durham University soon after excavation of the cairn in 1996. From sketches this is a very small cobble, about 0.10 m in diameter, with a single cup mark on each opposing face. It is similar to many others deposited in burial cairns (Weetwood, Fowberry, Chatton Sandyford). There are indications that the depressions were likely to be from an implement (by boring through). Information from Durham University comment "A possible loom weight, a small water-worn andesite pebble, into which a circular cup depression has been drilled out on either side, exactly opposite each other. This does not go all the way through, creating an hour-glass profile. The cups have identical dimensions. Made of pink andesite. Perhaps it is unfinished. Found amongst the stones of the cairn, west of the central cist - Lithology: medium grained andesitic lava with phenocrysts and unfilled vesicles. Sourced from the Cheviot Devonian lavas."