diff --git a/pkg/kv/kvserver/spanset/batch.go b/pkg/kv/kvserver/spanset/batch.go
index 704023e1fd54..805fef2bcd8d 100644
--- a/pkg/kv/kvserver/spanset/batch.go
+++ b/pkg/kv/kvserver/spanset/batch.go
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/keys"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachpb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/storage"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/storage/pebbleiter"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/hlc"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/protoutil"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/uuid"
@@ -421,9 +420,9 @@ func (i *EngineIterator) UnsafeRawEngineKey() []byte {
 	return i.i.UnsafeRawEngineKey()
 }
 
-// GetRawIter is part of the storage.EngineIterator interface.
-func (i *EngineIterator) GetRawIter() pebbleiter.Iterator {
-	return i.i.GetRawIter()
+// CloneContext is part of the storage.EngineIterator interface.
+func (i *EngineIterator) CloneContext() storage.CloneContext {
+	return i.i.CloneContext()
 }
 
 // Stats is part of the storage.EngineIterator interface.
diff --git a/pkg/storage/engine.go b/pkg/storage/engine.go
index 464b1103191c..d83866b18fc8 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/engine.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/engine.go
@@ -361,9 +361,9 @@ type EngineIterator interface {
 	// Value returns the current value as a byte slice.
 	// REQUIRES: latest positioning function returned valid=true.
 	Value() ([]byte, error)
-	// GetRawIter is a low-level method only for use in the storage package,
-	// that returns the underlying pebble Iterator.
-	GetRawIter() pebbleiter.Iterator
+	// CloneContext is a low-level method only for use in the storage package,
+	// that provides sufficient context that the iterator may be cloned.
+	CloneContext() CloneContext
 	// SeekEngineKeyGEWithLimit is similar to SeekEngineKeyGE, but takes an
 	// additional exclusive upper limit parameter. The limit is semantically
 	// best-effort, and is an optimization to avoid O(n^2) iteration behavior in
@@ -388,6 +388,12 @@ type EngineIterator interface {
 	Stats() IteratorStats
 }
 
+// CloneContext is an opaque type encapsulating sufficient context to construct
+// a clone of an existing iterator.
+type CloneContext struct {
+	rawIter pebbleiter.Iterator
+}
+
 // IterOptions contains options used to create an {MVCC,Engine}Iterator.
 //
 // For performance, every {MVCC,Engine}Iterator must specify either Prefix or
diff --git a/pkg/storage/intent_interleaving_iter.go b/pkg/storage/intent_interleaving_iter.go
index f2c31525b0c6..ecc6511800ff 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/intent_interleaving_iter.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/intent_interleaving_iter.go
@@ -267,7 +267,8 @@ func newIntentInterleavingIterator(reader Reader, opts IterOptions) MVCCIterator
 	if reader.ConsistentIterators() {
 		iter = maybeUnwrapUnsafeIter(reader.NewMVCCIterator(MVCCKeyIterKind, opts)).(*pebbleIterator)
 	} else {
-		iter = newPebbleIteratorByCloning(intentIter.GetRawIter(), opts, StandardDurability)
+		cloneCtx := intentIter.CloneContext()
+		iter = newPebbleIteratorByCloning(cloneCtx.rawIter, opts, StandardDurability)
 	}
 
 	*iiIter = intentInterleavingIter{
diff --git a/pkg/storage/mvcc.go b/pkg/storage/mvcc.go
index bf324a0f482c..a5a3955d37ae 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/mvcc.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/mvcc.go
@@ -5052,7 +5052,8 @@ func MVCCResolveWriteIntentRange(
 		mvccIter = rw.NewMVCCIterator(MVCCKeyIterKind, iterOpts)
 	} else {
 		// For correctness, we need mvccIter to be consistent with engineIter.
-		mvccIter = newPebbleIteratorByCloning(engineIter.GetRawIter(), iterOpts, StandardDurability)
+		cloneCtx := engineIter.CloneContext()
+		mvccIter = newPebbleIteratorByCloning(cloneCtx.rawIter, iterOpts, StandardDurability)
 	}
 	iterAndBuf := GetBufUsingIter(mvccIter)
 	defer func() {
diff --git a/pkg/storage/pebble_iterator.go b/pkg/storage/pebble_iterator.go
index 95ef7ec31845..36a914c8f453 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/pebble_iterator.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/pebble_iterator.go
@@ -887,9 +887,9 @@ func (p *pebbleIterator) IsPrefix() bool {
 	return p.prefix
 }
 
-// GetRawIter is part of the EngineIterator interface.
-func (p *pebbleIterator) GetRawIter() pebbleiter.Iterator {
-	return p.iter
+// CloneContext is part of the EngineIterator interface.
+func (p *pebbleIterator) CloneContext() CloneContext {
+	return CloneContext{rawIter: p.iter}
 }
 
 func (p *pebbleIterator) getBlockPropertyFilterMask() pebble.BlockPropertyFilterMask {