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Rock Art from Recent Excavations at Street House (2010 - 2024)
Excavations since 2010 at Street House, near Loftus, have found over twenty examples of prehistoric rock art (figs. 1&2). Rock Art is argued to date from the Later Neolithic period to the Early Bronze Age (c.2,300 – 1,500BC). This “art” is created by carving or pecking with a hard stone upon a softer sandstone. These can be earth fast rocks or “portable” boulders within monuments such as cairns and burial mounds. Some sites have been suggested to form territorial boundaries (fig.3). Rock art is not unique to Street House and the carvings and various different motifs have been found across sites in specific parts of Britain and abroad.