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Archaeology, folklore and history of Guiseley's standing stone.
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Archaeology and queries about this little-known circle.
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The Buddhist scholar Steve Hart and I came up here again a few days back, in freezing winds and snow and found the heather had been burnt back on some of the edges, giving a much better view of the site. Meditation in the circle brought about some intriguing subjective results, both personally and externally. A fine place indeed...
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Archaeology & folklore profile of this fine standing stone.
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We came up a-wandering round here a few weeks back and found that there isn't much left to be seen of this old settlement site. There seemed to be some trace of the earthworks near the road, but they're far from impressive. Much of this once giant monument has seemingly been ploughed away over the years.
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The great standing stone now has its very own little website.
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I love visiting places in the setting of night - and this site was no exception. Moorland can be a bit dodgy if you're walking without the cover of the Moon, but reaching here in the dark aint too troublesome.
A fascinating place: izzit a cairn, a settlement, a ritual spot, a what? It certainly invites you to sleep here for the night (leave the tent & fires at home though) and has a great look over other living parts of this high open landscape. Well recommended!
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More impressions and archaeo-notes on this stone in the wall.
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After spending the night sleeping rough in the freezing rain on one of the slopes nearby, MegaD brought us here in my shamanic trousers: potent enough to give an Eskimo a run for his money!
The day was dark, overcast, gloomy, just above freezing - my sorta day really! And this stone and its companions - left, right, here and there - brought some intriguing warmth to those parts that felt they might be falling off! A nice sturdy stone, with obvious importance to its adjacent landscape and other monuments. But what exactly...?
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When MegaD brought us here not long ago, it surprised me in its setting, its size, its feeling. A nice little thing, quietly hiding away in the new trees of modern folk. Some people are still having fires and meets here in the dark hours, but seem they may be taking stones from the edges of another cairn monument close by. I wouldn't mind a few night-time frobbles here misself this coming year...
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Wot a curious but spiffing place! I climbed up the thing in my shamanic trousers, freezing mi balls off. But what lovely views. We must come back here sometime soon for a picnic and more. Obviously a place of importance in the olden times - but what exactly...?
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Profile of another carving from this fascinating arena.
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Images & profile of this very well preserved cup-marked stone.
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Profile of this excellent cup-and-ring stone on Bingley Moor.
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Profile of this little-known cup-and-ring carving.
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Notes & descriptions on this now-destroyed stone circle, above Giggleswick, near Settle.
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A local blog, on their local monument, by a local person!
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The archaeology, finds & more images of this Iron Age site.
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More archaeology data & photos on this fine website.
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More history & folklore of these little-known stones.
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Archaeo-data & images of this old hillfort.
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Archaeo-details of "one of the very few prehistoric burial mounds in Essex still upstanding"
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Archaeo-data and imagery of this great old monument.
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Evolving profile of this famous cup-and-ring stone.
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Short profile of this curious cup-and-not-quite-ring stone!
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Old archaeology notes on this prominent long barrow.
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A couple more simple cup-marked stones here in the edge of the woods: one with three deep-ish cups; the other with 2 or 3 very faded cup-markings but (oddly) more probably artificial than its compatriot.
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An archaeo-historical profile of this little-known monolith.
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Archaeo-historical profile of this lost stone circle.
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A newly discovered cup-marked stone. On the small rounded boulder a coupla hundred yards north of the denuded Robin Hood's Wood, we find several faded cup-markings on its upper surface - some of them slightly covered in an excess of bird-droppings! We're gonna go back up there sometime soon, clean it up a bit and get some good images (hopefully!).
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Profile and images of this well-known cup-and-ring.
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Profile and images of this faded old carving.
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More info on this curious stone - and associated monoliths...
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Profile and images of this curious archaeological site.
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J.N.M. Colls' 1845 article and illustrations on this all-but-lost prehistoric graveyard.
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Evolving profile of this curious meeting place of the dead.
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A large and developing profile adding more to the Arrows as the weeks pass!
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The archaeology, modern history and little folklore of this fascinating carving.
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More archaeo-notes & images of this carved rocking stone.
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History, Symbolism & Discussion about this Universal Archaic Symbol
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More info and images on this old carving.
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More archaeo-notes on this huge round cairn.
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More archaeo-notes & folklore on these great cup-marked mushroom stones.
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Archaeological notes and references on this impressive carved boulder.
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Notes, old drawings, and an essay from 1894 about this old ruined ring.
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Some notes and folklore on the legendary Worm Well, just beneath its legendary hill.
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More folklore and history about this legendary healing spring.
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Very detailed overview of Ilkley Moor's best-known stone circle: its archaeology, folklore, curious alignments, and Fortean attributes.
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I have walked, explored and studied the archaeology, folklore, history and mythic ideas underscoring megaliths and their compatriots for 35 years.
I am available for lectures and also do guided walks to ancient sites in Yorkshire (with multidisciplinary overtones!). My specialised fields are:
History of Archaeological Ideas;
Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology in West Yorkshire;
Prehistoric rock art;
Rombald's Moor: Folklore & Archaeology;
The Rollright Stones: Folklore & Archaeology;
Transpersonal psychology and shamanism.
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