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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/ |
Posted by rockartuk11th 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... |
Posted by The Eternal 31st July 2008ce Edited 1st August 2008ce |
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New Rock Art Website Launched Today.. Today the new rock art site we have been looking forward to will be launched. http://nds.coi.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=375600&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=True |
Posted by rockartwolf31st July 2008ce |
High tides unearth burial mystery of bronze age childHigh 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... |
Posted by moss15th November 2007ce |
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The Telegraph Online"Ancient rock art baffles experts" From the point of view of two of the D&NRAP stalwarts. |
Posted by Hob19th January 2009ce |
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Bulmer's Stone (Natural Rock Feature) — Links |
Durham County CouncilA photo of the hemmed in stone. |
Posted by Rhiannon16th March 2010ce |
Bulmer's Stone (Natural Rock Feature) — Folklore |
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You've got to feel sorry for this rock. It's got no space. And yet, legend has it that it turns round nine times when it hears the clock strike twelve. It used to sit proudly by the road on Northgate, and Willy Bulmer used to read out the London news whilst standing on it. But Health and Safety deemed it in the way, so in the 1920s it was moved behind railings at Central House to be safely out the way. It's also supposed to have railway folklore links. In the 1820s Edward Pease had a horse-drawn railway that took coal to the Tees at Stockton. George Stephenson is supposed to have walked from Stockton to speak to him, to persuade him to use his new fangled steam engine. Stephenson sat on the stone to re-tie his boots, apparently. (This information collected in a document about Northgate conservation area by Darlington Borough Council.) It gets a mention in the Denham Tracts: Rhyme on Bulmer Stone, Darlington.The rhyme must be pretty old, as it's from a book given to the Durham cathedral library in 1662, and it previously belonged to the church of Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire, so the Tracts tell us. |
Posted by Rhiannon 16th March 2010ce |
Great Hetha Camp (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
  
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Posted by GLADMAN28th February 2010ce |
Kirkhaugh Complex (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by StoneGloves22nd February 2010ce |
Yeavering Bell (Hillfort) — Images |
 
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The Goatstones (Stone Circle) — Images |
 
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