Maarten van Hoek The Geography of Cup-and-Ring ... - StoneWatch

ather featureless and is dominated by the farther horizon with the
distinct rounded peaks of the Cheviot Hills. This is repeated at many
more sites, for instance at Amerside Law Hill, where the rock art sites
are not even located near the escarpment and in some instances it is
therefore not possible to see the sites on the lower dip slopes of
Weetwood Hill and Dod Law when standing at or near these sites on
Amerside Law Hill.
The Chatton Hill group also represents the end of a line of rock art
sites from Bewick Hill. Strikingly, there is no rock art reported north
of Chatton Hill, although the sandstone ridge continues further north
for at least 10 kilometres, offering equally fine smooth outcrop areas
with views similar to those from Chatton Hill.
* 1.2.3.3.3 In my opinion, the migration came from the south and
used the valley of the river Till for quite a long distance. But one left
this course near Chatton and turned to the north-west, towards Hare
Crags and Roughting Linn,
via the gentle dip slopes
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of the more westerly
sandstone ridge of
Doddington Moor. Rock art
proves to overlook this
route, rather than being
focussed on the Milfield
Basin, as Bradley suggests
(1997: 113). There indeed
are sites that overlook the
these plains, but too few
to base a definite link
with the Milfield Basin
upon.
Contrary, none of the
sites at Weetwood Hill
(Fig. 33) has a view across
Milfield Basin, although
there are plenty of
suitable outcrops near the
escarpment offering such
views. Also most of the
sites on Doddington Moor
FIGURE 33: WEETWOOD HILL.
have a view to the east or
south and only a small number offers limited views of the basin. In the
north of the Wooler group are some sites that have a view across (part
of) the Milfield Basin, and among these is the most important rock art
site of Northumberland, Roughting Linn. But, because the most
important site overlooks a specific feature in the landscape, this does
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