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StoneGloves Oct 11, 2010 07:20:00
Replying to Megalithics

I've only seen this site off the bus, going past. Except for five minutes in a rush with a camera I was uncertain of, with a jittery friend who wanted to get to Alston quickly. It's easy to reach with a car - that is its virtue. There are also the Alston Earthworks - not found by me! And the stone circle + at Kirkhaugh. I've stood on the railway embankment at Kirkhaugh, pointed out the outline of the stone circle to the two Northumbrian archaeologists of the time, and they've said 'stone circle'. And they were the most entrenched persons you could meet. Over on the fells, to the NW, there are large stone cairns. Colouring Crags and Broad Mea are the remote and spectacular ones. These are all with Right To Roam access. Not far away is an old copper mine - that's worth a look, and the farmer doesn't mind visitors. Then there's the stone rows of Slaggyford. One is very easy to find, two others less so. And there's the Maiden Way standing stone - another one by the roadside.

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StoneGloves Oct 11, 2010 10:36:41
Replying to StoneGloves

The arrangement with the farmer and landowner for the field that contains most of the stone circle at Kirkhaugh, and for the carved stones of Slaggyford, is to leave fifty pence per person per visit, on or beside the gatepost. Those Slaggyford stones are not far from the road, but take some finding. The first one is easy - the farmer knows it, but the others are less easy. There's an alignment that is the secret and walking back along it is how they're found. There's another, but putative, long barrow on the roadside at Coanwood. It's on the roadside. Not listed yet. A stone circle was nearby - in living memory and on the Victorian 6" maps - but that has been pulled out, leaving the stones in a pile. There's a three-sided four poster also listed, better provenanced than Whitehouse, but a long walk - gravel track - from the road end. I could post an aerial image of that one, somewhere, possibly.