Damon Bowles

A path through heather leads to a stone burial cairn.

View down on a hollowed out stone burial cairn against a backdrop of moor and sky.

The Little Skirtful of Stones on Burley Moor. An early Bronze Age burial cairn, sadly stripped of much of its original splendour. Legend says a local giant spilt some stones from her apron, hence the name. It's a common title for burial cairns across Yorkshire.
#burleymoor #bronzeage #burialcairn

The Badger Stone on Ilkley Moor

Close up of rock showing partial Bronze Age swastika

View west along escarpment of Ilkley Moor

The Badger Stone - the mother of all carved rocks on Ilkley Moor. It has cups (95), rings, interlinked grooves and gutters - the whole shebang. Even has a partial swastika (not that one) - thought to be a symbol relating to the sun back in the Bronze Age.
#rockart
#ilkleymoor
#bronzeage
#yorkshire

Neolithic #rockart on Ilkley Moor with interlocking lines and cup marks. Crazy to think someone was on their knees scrapping away here 5,000 years ago. Across the beck is a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age hut circle and enclosure (2,500-2,800 years old).
#ilkleymoor
#yorkshire
#rockart
#neolithic

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

The neolithic Map Stone up on an icy Ilkley Moor - so called because of its swirling lines linking cup and ring marks. Overcast, so the light doesn't really do it justice. Sketch from Adam Morgan Ibbotson's excellent book: Yorkshire's Prehistoric Monuments.
#ilkleymoor #yorkshire #neolithic #rockart

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