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Paulus P
Paulus Sep 29, 2005 22:28:33
Replying to David Raven

< 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....

D David Raven
David Raven Sep 30, 2005 18:45:28
Replying to Paulus

Thanks for the info Paulus. It's been bugging me for ages wondering which stone was *the* Witch's Stone!


<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....>

The local historian I spoke to told me about a carving on a rock, a little further north. Next time you're there, walk past the row of quaint terraced cottages further up the beck. The path runs on the slope slightly above them. If you look at the floor, you should come across a flat stone in the surface of the track with an odd shape carved onto it. The historian reckoned it might be just a mark left by a cart... or it might be something else...


If you go even further up the valley, near Adel, (not far from the site of the 'Idol Rock' you describe in your book), there's the very faint carving on a boulder, of the Romano-British god Cocidius.


Cheers

Dave