Ilkley Moor – Graining’s Head stone

Summary: The Graining's Head stone on Weary Hill features a complex arrangement of Cup and Ring motifs.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 10
  • Motif/s: Cup-and-Ring
  • Quality: 3.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • K.S.J. Boughey and E.A. Vickerman, Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding (2003)

Located on Weary Hill below the Weary Stone, the Graining’s Head stone has a relatively small but fairly complex carving consisting mostly of Cup and Ring motifs. (OS Grid Reference SE 10767 46492 / 53.914467, -1.837569).

IMG 9456 LR Ilkley Moor - Graining's Head stone

The stone has “two cups with incomplete rings, one cup with an almost complete ring and six single cups (one covered in vegetation), one cup with a partial arc, and two weathered, faint grooves. One cup and ring also has a short groove extending from its ring”.

Graining's Head stone

The Graining’s Head stone is also known as:

  • ERA-2334
  • Boughey & Vickerman (245) / PRAWR 245
  • SAM 25399
  • PRN169

Getting to the Graining’s Head stone

The small boulder is reached from the carpark at along Keighley Road in Ilkley (continue on foot from the carpark along the 4WD road). The Ilkley Moor loop hike passes this site and a number of others on the moor.

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