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2009 Meeting of the British Rock Art Group (BRAG)

The 2009 Meeting organized by the British Rock Art Group (BRAG) has been announced for Saturday, 9th of May. For more information go to:
http://rockartuk.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/2009-brag-meeting/
rockartuk Posted by rockartuk
11th February 2009ce
Edited 12th February 2009ce

Ancient rock carvings discovered.


More than 100 new examples of prehistoric art have been discovered carved into boulders and open bedrock throughout Northumberland and Durham.

The 5,000-year-old Neolithic carvings of circles, rings and hollowed cups, were uncovered by volunteers... continues...
The Eternal Posted by The Eternal
31st July 2008ce
Edited 1st August 2008ce

High tides unearth burial mystery of bronze age child


High tides and winds that have battered our shores have unearthed a burial mystery for archaeologists.

Erosion by the sea and weather has revealed what seems to be the remains of a Bronze Age child... continues...
moss Posted by moss
15th November 2007ce

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"Ancient rock art baffles experts"

From the point of view of two of the D&NRAP stalwarts.
Hob Posted by Hob
19th January 2009ce

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Pin Well / King's Chair (Sacred Well) — Images (click to view fullsize)

<b>Pin Well / King's Chair</b>Posted by LauraC Posted by LauraC
2nd February 2012ce

Weetwood Moor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images

<b>Weetwood Moor</b>Posted by Hob Hob Posted by Hob
6th January 2012ce

Battlestone (Humbleton) (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore

Humbledon, a small village, on an eminence, under which a great victory was obtained by Henry Lord Percy, and George Earl of March, over the Scotch under the command of Archibald Earl of Douglas, on Holyrood-day in the harvest, 3 K. Henry IV, 1402. Earl Douglas's forces consisted of 10,000 men. He possessed the hills, but Lord Percy, sirnamed Hotspur, cutting off his retreat to Scotland with the plunder he had acquired in Northumberland, he was forced to come to an engagement on the plain. With him were most of the barons, knights, and gentlemen of Fife and Lothian, who escaped by flight, 22d of June, the year before, from the battle of Nisbet, in the Merse, in which fell most of the Lothian-youth. A great part of them were either slain or taken prisoners. Among the latter were the Earls of Fife, Murrey, Angus, Atholl, and Monteith. Earl Douglas received five wounds, and lost an eye. Five hundred Scotchmen in the pursuit were drowned in the Tweed. The field of battle is called Red-Riggs, from the blood spilt on it. By the side of the road, under Humbledon-Bauks, is an upright pillar of whinstone erected in memory of it; in height, six feet, six inches, and a half; in diameter, twelve feet.
From v2 of 'The natural history and antiquities of Northumberland' by John Wallis (1769). It sounds so dreadful that it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to appropriate the stone as a memorial.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
22nd December 2011ce

The King's Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore

An earlyish mention of the legend, and it's sort of interesting that there's another stoney place involved in the story:
We now turn southward on the Etall-road from Cornhill, about two miles from which, on the right hand, in Brankston-west-field, is a large upright pillar, of whinstone, six feet, seven inches high, and thirteen feet in diameter towards the base; a memorial of the great victory obtained over K. James IV, of Scotland, by the Earl of Surrey, on Friday, 9th of September, 5[sic] K. Henry VIII, 1513.

This battle is called, The battle of Brankston, from the chief scene of action being near that village; also the battle of Floddon from the Scotch intrenchments being on Floddon-hill, out of which they were drawn forcibly, as it were, to an engagement, by the Earl of Surrey's cutting off their retreat homewards. Among the slain was their sovereign, with his natural son, Alexander, Archbishop of St. Andrews, who had the learned Erasmus for his tutor; also two other Scotch prelates, four abbots, twelve Earls, seventeen lords, a great number of knights and gentlemen, and about eight thousand, or as some say, twelve thousand common men. According to Sir John Froisart, K. James fell near Brankston, where he was found the next day by Lord Dacres.

On the highest part of Flodden-hill, near it, is a natural rock, called the King's chair, from which he had a good view of his own, and of the English army, and of the country round him.

In the time of the battle the thieves of Tynedale and Tiviotdale were not idle. They rifled the English tents, and took away many horses, and other things.
From v2 of 'The natural history and antiquities of Northumberland' by John Wallis (1769). I love the way the mere 8 (12) thousand get bottom billing on the list of the dead.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
22nd December 2011ce

Northumberland (County) — Links

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History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, volume 9 (1879-81) - has a list of "The named Stones of Northumberland; being a list of huge stones, single and in groups, in situ and detached, to which local names have been given in the County." by G. A. Lebour.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
4th November 2011ce

Amos Hill (Sacred Hill) — Images

<b>Amos Hill</b>Posted by StoneGloves StoneGloves Posted by StoneGloves
14th September 2011ce

Corbridge (Cup Marked Stone) — Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library


'A cup-marked stone in the Roman town of Corstopitum' - a short article by R H Walton in the 1962 edition of the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.

"Only the other day, gang after gang of Irish labourers was dismissed rather than agree to put an air-port runway across some thorn trees which they considered to be free from interference - even in the cause of "Progress." Perhaps the British workmen thought the same thing, in 200AD."
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
31st August 2011ce

Ellsnook (Round Barrow(s)) — Images

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14th August 2011ce
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