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A stone block with rounded corners, currently sitting on top of walling within Coria / Corstopitum Roman museum. The motifs consist of a groove enclosing 10 cups of varying size and depths, with one possibly incorporated into the enclosing groove and another is oddly keyhole shaped. Twelve further cups, again of varying size and depths have been placed outside the groove. The design covers the available surface of the stone and this could be its original shape. The stone is extremely friable and sand grains can be seen in the bottom of most cups, whether this accounts for the depths of some is open to question. Peck marks may also be present, but these small indentations may be the result of pitting due to the stones friability. A flat triangular stone with several circular artificial holes was initially recorded at NY9826764830, some 18 metres east-south-east. A later visit recorded these as being more Roman than prehistoric.
A massive block of sandstone lies on the foundations of buildings to the north of Stanegate within the Roman settlement of Coria. It is not possible to say whether the Romans cut it from outcrop rock to incorporate in the building; it seems most likely that prehistoric people made the pattern on this flat-topped boulder, as the design has not been cut up. The site is a multi-phase one, with both Mesolithic and Iron Age represented.