More information : (Name NZ 04959906) Birky Hill. On small eminence, about 600 yards
south-south-west from Lordenshaws Camp two rocks with a few weathered
but unmistakable cups. Unpublished. (1)
Birky Hill a small local rise in the general SW-NE ridge about 820
feet above sea level.
'A' NZ 05029911. On the summit of the ridge is a small area of
outcrop. One rock, about 1.5m square and 0.6m high, has four
weathered cups and an irregular depression, possibly natural
weathering. A little to the SE another, partly overgrown, rock has
two possible weathered cups. None of the other rocks in the area
shows any traces of markings.
'B' NS 05009910. To the SW of the marked rocks is a hut circle with
traces of associated enclosure banks to the SW and NE. The remains
are too fragmentary for any definite conclusions but in view of the
restricted width of the level ridge summit it is probable that this
was a small pastoral enclosure with a single hut similar to others
encountered on the moors.
There is no evidence for dating. The nearest springs are some 450.0m
to the NE. (2)
Cup-markings confirmed. See photograph of 'A'. The remains at 'B'
are difficult to assess. A possible stone-founded hut circle with
associated fragmentary walling can be envisaged, the whole
suggesting a small native-type homestead, but the remains are too
slight for certainty. Surveyed with rocks at 1:2500. (3)
NZ 051 991. Cup and ring marked rocks, stone rows, tumuli, cairns
and Garleigh Hill stone circles and Lordenshaws camp, Hesleyhurst.
Scheduled No ND/86. (4)
West Lordenshaw (Birky Hill) 1 H00680NZ 0512 9912
..There is an artificial structure that may be a disturbed long mound or small enclosure. On its northern slopes are three marked rocks. The most southerly is a flat slab with a cup and two rings, centred on a cup and a diametric groove, all faintly marked. There is a large box-like block of sandstone with natural erosion on its top surface, added to artificially, and incorporating cups and basins.
A sloping outcrop completes this little group, and differs from the others, for here a notable feature is a line of eight cups, one with a groove running downh the cloping rock to end in a small cup. There are three parallel lines of cups, both vertical and horizontal. The lines begin with five cups at the top, four on the next line, and three on the third, but the largest cups form a square with three rows of three. The other part of the rock has larger cups, some with grooves.(6)
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