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Eston Moor Carved Stone Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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The Hills are alive...with graffiti http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/news/tm_objectid=17559391%26method=full%26siteid=109975-name_page.html |
Posted by fitzcoraldo16th August 2006ce Edited 16th August 2006ce |
EH working with local police to protect Eston MoorKate Wilson, inspector of ancient monuments for English Heritage North-East has called for action to stop arsonists on Eston Moor who are destroying the heather which protects archaeological sites. Trials bikes and off-road vehicles are also damaging the earthworks... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon24th October 2005ce |
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high on the eston hills overlooking e the sprawl of the tees valley lies eston nab. The word Nab is derived from the Saxon word Cnaep, which signifies the summit of a hill. You've got iron age earthworks backed up by bronze age burial mounds. The trick is to visit. then you know why it is there. strategic to the whole north east coastline,the romans knew it and built a beacon station there that linked the coastal network to catterick garrison, telecoms experts today know it and have an array of hardwear dotted around the site, continuity of use or what ? heads know it and have their betane pyres there too. well worth a visit, lots of beer cans and the odd burned out twoc on the trek up there, it sort of represents the lawless attitude of teesside and a continuity with our lawless past. check it out. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 24th July 2000ce |
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When Eston nabbe puts on a cloake,on p130 of Weather Proverbs and Sayings Not Contained in Inwards' or Swainson's Books C. W. Empson The Folk-Lore Record, Vol. 4. (1881), pp. 126-132. Apparently also in the Denham Tracts from 1850. |
Posted by Rhiannon 26th April 2007ce Edited 26th April 2007ce |
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"In times of old, when British nymphs were known To love no foreign fashions like their own; When dress was monstrous, and fig-leaves the mode, And quality put on no paint but woad" From Garth's poems |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 22nd October 2002ce |
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A a, flea fly, a magpie an bacon flitch Is t' Yorkshireman's coit-of arms. An't reason they've chozzen theaze things soa rich Is becoss they hev all special charms. A flea will bite whoivver it can- An soa' mi lads, will a Yorkshireman; A fly will sup wi' Dick, Tom and Dan- An soa i'gow will a Yorkshireman; A magpie can talk for a terrible span- An soa an' all, can a Yorkshireman; A flitch is noa gooid whol* it's hung, ye'll agree- No more is a Yorkshireman, doan't ye see. *till Folk tales of Yorshire H.L. Gee 1952 |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 23rd April 2002ce |
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"Reference is made in Ord to a 'hillock in Court Green' which was destroyed by workmen. In it were found, below a paved surface, 5 urns of 'flowerpot shape' arranged in a circle. The present location of the finds in unknown, as is the site of the location itself. Ord further reports, though he did not see it himself, the existance of a 'number of upright stones set in a circle' near the mound. The mound in question does not appear to be Court Green Howe as it is recorded as having been destroyed. Ord refers on several occassions to the whole of the Eston Hills as 'Court Green', so the alleged barow and stone circle may be anywhere on those hills. Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Cleveland G.M. Crawford |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 21st May 2003ce |
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"The Cleveland north from these, a state that doth maintain, Leaqning her lusty side to the great northern main, Which if she were not here cofined thus in me, A shire even of herself might well be said to be" From Drayton's Poly-Olbion (Twenty-eighth song). |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 21st November 2002ce |
| The current monument situated within the hill fort is built from the stonework of the Nepoleonic watch tower that was situated on the nab |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 22nd October 2002ce |
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According to J.W. Ord in his book "The History and Antiquities of Cleveland" published in 1846 A stone circle formerly stood at Court Green approx 1 mile East of Eston nab |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 5th September 2002ce |
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Frank Elgee in his book " Early Man in North East Yorkshire" describes his excavations of Eston nab. Flints were discovered on the higher platform, "Good implements were scarce; chips, flakes and pieces numerous." Further in the camp he discovered several cremations, flint scrapers, a leaf shaped arrow-heads, many quartzite hammer stones, a stone chopper, stone rubbers or polishers and numerous fragments of food vessels. he discovered a cup marked rock in the fosse and evidence of stone walling. One disturbing feature he discovered was "minute pieces of calcined human bone suggested either cremations had been carried out on the discovered hearths or that a cannibal feast had be held" The camp is dated to the bronze age by the food vessels. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 5th September 2002ce |
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"Eston Nab is one of the most attractive of Clevelands hills. It's lofty summit overlooks a vast extent of country, and it's antiquarian remains and historical associations invest it with much interest." The Watering Places of Cleveland Samuel Gordon Pub. 1869 |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 3rd April 2002ce |
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"On the summit of this promontory , which spreads out to the forthwards into an extensive plain, there is an ancient encampment, conjectured to be of Saxon origin, consisting of a double circle of rough loose stones: the inner rampart or entrenchment being 150 paces in cirmcuference; and the whole still perfect except on the north, where a small portion of the circle is cut off by the abrutness of the rock,which on that side is nearly perpendicular. This was probably constructed by the Saxons about the year 492 when they were overthrown by the Britons at the battle of Badon-Hill" The History of Cleveland by John Graves published 1808 |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 10th March 2002ce |
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This is taken from the book: "The Story Of Cleveland" by "Minnie C. Horton" . p278 "The eastern end of the Eston Hills known as Court Green was, in the opinion of Mr. O. hill, a place of importance in the mid Bronze Age, for not only were there barrows, but a stone circle is reputed to have stood there." I dont know much about Mr O hill except that he was a historian and the information came from the local news paper the Evening Gazette in 1959. |
Posted by alirich 25th January 2002ce |
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Eston Hills - Iron Age hillfort and burial mounds.Tees archaeology's description of the area and its archaeology. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 26th September 2006ce Edited 26th September 2006ce |
Tees Archaeology's aerial photographyA second photo of the site here- http://www.teesarchaeology.com/projects/aerial_photography/gallery/index38.html |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 26th February 2004ce Edited 26th February 2004ce |
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