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Paulus Jan 21, 2005 19:49:29
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Hi treehugger

< the Queen of the Fairies chair but the directions seem to plot it well and truly in Yorkshire is that the right grid ref? >

I seem to be making a habit of mistaken grid-refs! I don't actually have the OS-map for this site, so the grid-ref was a bittova "near miss" on my behalf. If you've got the exact one, send it & I'll amend the site details.

I look forward to seeing your pikkies of the Fourstones. Did y' get any of the cup-markings on it? I was curiously lucky to visit this site when I was hitch-hiking last autumn, when this bloke drove me up to the place (in one helluva down-pour!) but I didn't have a camera. Harry Speight & another old writer (T.D. Whitaker perhaps) told there to be a few other stones & outcrops along the Yorks/Lancs border here with more than a bit of heathen history. Seems like there was summat going off in this small region that we've all forgotten about. Does anybody know owt more?

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treehugger-uk Jan 22, 2005 00:49:32
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Hey Paulus

Unfortunately the first time i heard of the Queen of the Fairys Stone was when you mentioned it.
I was kinda hoping you could pinpoint it to me!
The only thing i can suggest is go to the great stone of fourstones on the streetmap locate your stone on there and click the link at the bottom to convert the map ref which'll give you a landranger grid ref?
Youe memory indeed serves you right and yes i got some photos of the cupmarks for you and will post this w/e after ive uploaded them from my digicam. I found quite e few cupmarks on top and a few footprints up one side of it.
Ive not really been round that area too much b4 so unsure about any other formations round there but it would be good to have a mooch about up there some more.
Theres a few caves and outcrops up Leck way you might find interesting theyre pretty much near the border. The sites i have yet to add are just cairns and barrows. I guess we'll have to find a local expert instead!

Peace

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