Howden Hill 1

It is uncertain whether this panel is the same as Beckensall Archive 'Round Cairns West of Middle House' as the location given there is only accurate to 200 m. The Archive record describes 16 cup-marks on a boulder that forms part of the Round Cairns discovered by an English Heritage Field Warden. The uncovered part of the panel described here has approximately this number of cups although the location is about 100 m SW of the westernmost of the three Round Cairns. There is a boulder with eroded depressions and grooves which could possibly be described as cup-marked at the centre of the easternmost cairn (NY 83465 69681) - see Howden Hill 3 (ERA 1416). More than 50 cups. Some of these in two prominent lines of cups running to the south side, curved arcs and lines or more scattered. One area of shallow peck marks on north side. The panel is a rounded rock, nearly completely turf-covered apart from the highest part in eastern middle part of panel. The surface dips away from this high point to N, S and W. Two prominent lines of cups run to S side, others scattered but particularly clustered on south and west sides. The cups on the SE side appear to form curved arcs, and, on the E side, parallel lines. The N side of panel is sparsely carved and there is one area of shallow peck-marks which may be an unfinished cup.