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Hi Paul

<I think so - though I somehow managed to lose the image you sent me. It's right near the bottom of the park (though don't know about any ranger's office)>


Aye, near the beck, at the bottom of the park, below the car park by the Ranger's office.
My pics aren't as good as Josie's anyway! :-D

<Turns out to coincide with its position on an early OS-map of the region >

I couldn't find any trace of it on the 1850-something O.S. map. Is there an older one for that area?

<though I aint checked any out any extra literary records on the old stone. There's gotta be summat said of it somewhere in Leeds library>

I asked an old bloke who's written several local history booklets (can't recall his name atm) about it. He said there were some old gate posts and rubbing posts in the park. This stone doesn't look like a gate post. I don't remember seeing any trace of holes or hinges.


Cheers

Dave

< I couldn't find any trace of it on the 1850-something O.S. map. Is there an older one for that area? >

Surprisingly it's a more recent one - around 1890 or summat. If y' root thru Leeds library's old maps you'll find it.

< ...an old bloke who's written several local history booklets....said there were some old gate posts and rubbing posts in the park. >

I found a few of them, further up the streamside. But there were one or 2 others without gate-latches. I also have a sneaky suspicion there's summat else lurking in the wooded areas which has yet to enter the archaeologist's records. Mi nose was twitching to something on higher grounds - dunno what it might be though....