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Prehistoric rock archive wins award

England’s finest collection of prehistoric rock art has won a prestigious national award.The internet archive, believed to be the most comprehensive of its kind in the world, features more than 6,000 images of rock art panels in Northumberland. It has been developed by Newcastle University with rock art specialist Dr Stan Beckensall.The Nortumberland Rock Art website has been awarded a Channel Four Television Award (ICT Category) at the 2006 British Archaeological Awards. Judges at the Awards, which reward the best in British archaeology, praised the “remarkable archive of images dedicated to this equally remarkable collection of prehistoric sites”. The website received two million hits in the first five days after its launch in January 2005, which was covered on national BBC television.Northumberland contains England’s finest collection of rock art. More than 1,000 ‘cup and ring’ carvings can be found among its remote and expansive moorlands. The mysterious panels are believed to be the work of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age people living between 3,500 to 6,000 years ago.

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