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Battle Stone (Yeavering)

Standing Stone / Menhir

<b>Battle Stone (Yeavering)</b>Posted by pebblesfromheavenImage © Pebblethief
Nearest Town:Coldstream (13km NW)
OS Ref (GB):   NT930304 / Sheets: 74, 75
Latitude:55° 34' 1.52" N
Longitude:   2° 6' 39.64" W



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I parked at Gefrin and walked back down the hill. The stone is a good seven feet high, and a granitey beast!

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pebblesfromheaven Posted by pebblesfromheaven
23rd February 2003ce

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The standing stone at Yevering in Glendale is a large column of prophyry planted upright in a field at the northern base of the hill called Yevering Bell. It is usually spoken of as indicating a battle, but is in reality prehistoric, there being another, now prostrate, among the old forts and tumuli on the eastern end of the lower slope of that hill. By the common people it is called the "Druid's Lapfu'." A female Druid's apron string broke there, and the stone dropped out and remained in its present position. Another account is that one of the Druids, who are represented like the Pechs or Picts to have had very long arms, pitched it from the top of the Bell, and it sunk into the soil where it fell.
From the second volume of Denham Tracts printed by the Folklore Society in 1895.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
3rd February 2010ce