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).
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”.
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.
More information
- Megalithic Portal – Graining’s Head 01
- Sketchfab – Graining’s Head 01 [3D model]
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