Photograph Notes: This part of Osmonds Gill is a deep, but dry valley, cut by a sub-glacial stream from and below the Stainmore Ice sheet. With the Cross Gill which enters on the left, the erosive power of these streams towards the end of the last ice age has cut deep into the escarpment and left much exposed rock. A little lower down, just beyond the green patch in the centre of the photo, are three springs which join to form a substantial stream. Near the springs are burnt, crescentic mounds of fire-reddened and cracked sandstone cobbles. These were heated in hearths and then pushed into troughs of water to bring it to the boil, and appear to date from the late stone age. Scrambling up to the right of the stream leads onto a terrace, on which are more than two dozen cup and ring marked rocks, and, further on, the remains of a settlement. Out of frame to the right is Barningham Moor stone 68, which, when wet, and seen in the right light, reveals a spectacular set of concentric rings cut across the grain of the cross-bedded sandstone. This was my second visit on which I've failed to find and identify it as all these marked stones are hard to distinguish without the right conditions of wet rock and oblique lighting.
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