Swastika Stone

The Swastika Stone is a stone adorned with a swastika, located on the Woodhouse Crag on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire [1]. It is the only one of its kind known in Britain [1]. The design has a double outline with four curved arms and an attached S-shape, each enclosing a so-called "cup" mark [1]. Similar cup and ring marks can be found on other stones nearby [1]. The stone has not been verifiably dated [1]. The academic consensus suggests it to have been carved sometime around the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, although Frank Elgee suggests that the design indicates a late Iron Age origin [1].