Panel aliases: Chattonpark

Notes about name:

 
Chatton means Ceatta's Farm.

Current location: Countryside

Parish: Chatton CP, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England   

Panel type:

• Art in Landscape – Outcrop

Legal status: Private

Nature of access: Open Access

Access remarks:

 
The panel is located on the Defra conservation walks map. The area falls under the Defra stewardship scheme.

Wheelchair access: Impossible

General notes:

 
The sense of space, the use of the natural basin and channel are all important parts of the design. Unfortunately, the nineteenth century saw people trying to lay a claim to cheap immortality by bringing up tools to carve their names and the date on the rock.
 

Motifs:  

Art description:

There are motifs on the crown of the rock in the form of parallel serpentine grooves, cups, and simple cups and rings. The main natural feature of the rock is a large irregularly shaped basin from which a channel snakes its way down the slope eastward. This feature seems to have been enhanced. To the south of the channel are groups of domino cups, a cup at the centre of three incomplete rings, a cup and arc, and at the bottom is a cup at the centre of a five-sided box with an external arc. From the arc a groove runs down the slope, parallel to a wavy groove from the box. Below this are two cups enclosed by an angular ring, with angular grooves concentric to it. Already we see two kinds of symbols: roughly circular grooves and more angular grooves.

To the north of the main channel, close to it is another box-like figure with a small cup enclosed, but this is faint compared with the cup at the centre of three deeply pecked concentric rings. The cup has a small duct leading from it down the rock, the line of which is extended faintly up the rock as a radius to reach the outer ring. Other faint figures, unattached grooves and incomplete concentric rings lead to the most distinct design of all. This is a cup from which a long groove runs down the rock, almost meeting the channel.

Around the cups are three concentric rings and a penannular. Then an unusual variation on the cup and ring theme appears: a small cup above the central one has its own ring that is attached to the fourth penannular around the main central cup. The next two concentric rings follow that pattern, giving the seven concentric rings a distinct crown.
The groove from this central cup is joined by a groove from the centre of three concentric penannulars that are distinctly angular. Close by is a square groove with nothing at its centre – an unusual motif. Above the large motif are some faint cups and rings. South of the main motif is a cup at the centre of five concentric rings, this time with no duct leading from it. It lies on the edge of the outcrop, and there is another duct above it leading from the main one, this time away from the channel to the east edge of the rock.

The depth of cups and grooves and perhaps the action of water as it runs down the rock has preserved the main figures that we see today. Fainter figures are not necessarily eroded, but may be pecked on faintly with less sense of purpose.