How Beck Head 8

This free standing block can be found about 5 m down the east slope to How Beck. It’s in a very unusual position for rock art and is likely to have slipped from higher ground. The motifs consist of sixteen uniform cups, plus four others, which could be either artificial or natural. At the south-west end are several small depressions which the project initially recorded as 'possible preparation for cups or picking in rosette form', this was difficult to determine on a later visit. The stones surface is heavily pitted and more depressions could be cup marks but their irregular shape and depth make this difficult to determine. Reference 1 in the West Loups section of the 1998 publication, ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of County Durham, Swaledale and Wensleydale’..