Battlestone (Humbleton)

Here’s what Stan Beckensall has to say about the stone.

“At Homildon Hill, below the Cheviots, on the way to Coldstream from Wooler is the site of a lesser battle in 1402 between the old enemies Percy and Douglas, traditionally marked by a standing stone to the east of the road that in fact marks the site of a prehistoric burial.
Shakespear begins the first part of Henry IV with this battle where the protagonists ‘did spend a sad and bloody hour’.”

Taken from
Northumberland, The Power of Place
Stan Beckensall
Tempus Books
2001