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Never mind the Simpsons - could you fancy (and perhaps measuring) the four-poster on the outskists of Alston? If I knew you were going - sometime - then I'd post an accurate locational aerial image. I intended to go this summer but am having difficulty walking - need bionic intervention probably - and so didn't get there. It's listed here as Whitehouse and that's the only known photograph, so far. It could be the smallest four-poster known, and is an outlier to a 75m circle a couple of miles away, across the border in Northumbria. (Whitehouse has an SMR number but an unlisted, and unvisited, large round barrow not far away)...

StoneGloves wrote:
Never mind the Simpsons - could you fancy (and perhaps measuring) the four-poster on the outskists of Alston? If I knew you were going - sometime - then I'd post an accurate locational aerial image. I intended to go this summer but am having difficulty walking - need bionic intervention probably - and so didn't get there. It's listed here as Whitehouse and that's the only known photograph, so far. It could be the smallest four-poster known, and is an outlier to a 75m circle a couple of miles away, across the border in Northumbria. (Whitehouse has an SMR number but an unlisted, and unvisited, large round barrow not far away)...
Thanks David,
I have no plans to venture north of Cross Fell this year.
Hope you recover soon.

StoneGloves wrote:
Never mind the Simpsons - could you fancy (and perhaps measuring) the four-poster on the outskists of Alston? If I knew you were going - sometime - then I'd post an accurate locational aerial image.
We're reasonably close to Alston and could fit it into our visiting list for this year. Unfortunately the Cumbrian SMR isn't on-line like the Northumbrian one and we couldn't get any details, so any hints location-wise would be appreciated. The smallest four poster we have visited is probably Fontburn, one of the axes there is barely over 2m.

Maggie & Keith