Dod Law Cist (Procter)

In the museum archive, this carving is recording as being part of a cist found at Doddington. William Procter refers to a carved stone being taken from a barrow on Dod Law to Alnwick Castle (1874). J Collingwood-Bruce labels a lithograph of this stone ‘Doddington’ in his privately published ‘Incised Markings on Stone’ (1869). The motifs consist of a cup and groove surrounded by three penannulars, with the outer two penannulars carved into a prominent raised bedding plane on the stone. A cup with two possible arcs can be seen at the other end of the stone. All of the motifs are extremely eroded, which could suggest either the stone was exposed within the cist on Dod Law, or if excavated, it was carved long before being placed in the cist. It now resides in storage at Park Farm, within the livery.