Rough Holden 03 (March 2012)

Another of the prehistoric carved rocks found on private farmland in the Rough Holden area of Rombalds Moor, West Yorkshire. First recorded in the database of Paul Bowers, this rock was added to ERA by the CSI:Rombalds Moor project as ‘Rough Holden 03’. The team described: ‘...The visible area of stone has a longest axis of NNW-SSE, but the lower E half is currently turf covered. Motifs consist of two cups each with a groove leading out on the E side. The most northerly groove is 0.1m and southerly 0.18m. These grooves have been previously recorded as extending further to the edge of the stone, but turf coverage now prevents these being observed.’ There's a possibility the carver(s) may have utilised the stones topography when placing motifs to create other elements of design. This decimated model was created from 14 stereo pairs captured by Richard Stroud (CSI Team) in March 2012. The imagery forms part of the HLF funded CSI: Rombalds Moor / Watershed Landscape Project archive.