ABSTRACT
Roughting Linn (Pl. 19) is the largest carved rock in northern England and one of the very few which is displayed to the public. The site is located just outside the Milfield basin in Northumberland, a region which contains a particularly dense concentration of henge monuments (Harding 1981). The carvings were first recognised by Canon Greenwell in the mid-nineteenth century when part of the outcrop had already been destroyed by quarrying (Tate 1865). Some of the designs were exposed at the time but others were revealed by removing the turf (Shee Twohig 1988; Beckensall 1991, 6-12). Even now it is uncertain whether all the motifs have been found.
