402 Undescribed Sculptured Rods. By Wm. Gunn. 



The sculpturings here are not numerous. There is one large 

 incised circle measuring thirteen inches in diameter, and inside it 

 is a central cup two inches in diameter. There is another incised 

 circle seven inches in diameter, with a central cup three inches in 

 diameter. Scattered about are traces of two or three other circles. 

 It will be seen from the description that the markings here are of 

 a very common type and do not demand any illustration. 



The other place where sculpturing was noticed is a more impor- 

 tant one. It is a little south of the direct line between Chatton 

 and "Wooler, being If miles from the former place and 1\ from 

 the latter. It is 400 yards to the S.W. of the farmhouse of 

 Fowberry Mains, 500 yards N.N.W. of Fowberry Park House, 

 and eighty yards south from the footpath leading from Fow- 

 berry Mains by Fowberry Moor to Wooler. The sculpturings 

 here are found on the solid sandstone rock which in places has 

 been striated by glacial action. The rock dips gently to the east- 

 ward and on its sloping surface are found the markings— or most 

 of them— for the rock goes down rather abruptly to the W. and 

 N.W. and one of the sculpturings goes partly down the steep 

 face. About half a mile to the N.W. occurs the nearest of the 

 incised rocks on Whitsunbank Hill described by G. Tate in the 

 Proceedings of the Club for 1864, vol. v. pp. 153, 154. 



For the accompanying sketches of these Fowberry Park 

 Sculpturings, I am indebted to my son Mr A. E. Gunn. They 

 have been elaborated from rough sketches drawn at the time 

 from actual measurements. All are on a uniform scale of an inch 

 to a foot. In Fig. 1 all the forms seem common, except the dumb- 

 bell shaped one — formed by connecting two of the cups by means 

 of a groove. I have seen nothing approaching the resemblance 

 of Fig. 2. excepting the horizontally cut pittings at Old Bewick, 

 figured by Tate in paper referred to, Plate IX. Fig. 2 ; but at Old 

 Bewick, there is only one row of cups and they are not so numer- 

 ous or so close together as these at Fowberry Park. In Figure 

 3. we have oval and trapezoidal forms as well as circular, and we 

 see that the circle and one of the ovals each contains two cups. 

 Figure 4 seems absolutely unique. It is the one referred to 

 previously as going partly down the face of the rock, and it was 

 a good deal covered with turf. It is the first example — unless 

 we may also reckon No. 2. with this — of an attempt to outline a 

 definite figure by means of rows of cups or pittings. It looks 

 much like a rude attempt to draw one of the flat fishes — a fluke say. 



