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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

Megalithics wrote:
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

See http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/tma/topic/49783/flat/20/

btw Gordon if you are reading this ,no sign of "growing out of it ",in fact it's much worse .

Thank you - give me 24 hours to produce an image. It's next to the main road and so easily found.

I almost got it to work, I could see all the sites on the map? but when I wanted to know what they were, it crashed
http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/planning-environment/countryside/historic-environment/HER_online.asp

I've posted a couple of photographs and an altered aerial image on the Whitehouse page here. The map reference given there is close enough to locate the stones. As well as the four upright stones in the circle there are two pairs of small outliers each a distance away from the four stones on an axis roughly parallel to the road. These other stones are almost lost in the turf and the easiest pair are not far from the wall that borders Whitehouse. None of the features that I've listed on 'Alston Moor' have been photographed by anyone other than myself. Some are very remote - but also very large. The long barrow at Colouring Crags (^) is the most difficult, perhaps, with Holy Mire stone circle as one of the easiest. The Bold Venture copper mine is somewhere in about the middle and the Tynehead mine utterly unknown and never visited. Where is it (eg) ?