Grey Horse Stone

Also known as:
The Grey Mare or The Grey Mare and her Foal.
Nearest town:
Whitby (12km WNW)
OS reference:
NZ953009
OS sheet:
94
Latitude:
54° 23' 39.81 N
Longitude:
0° 31' 55.33 W
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Image of Grey Horse Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by fitzcoraldo

I was on another part of the moor when the sun began to sink behind the far-away tabular hills. Me and the dog ran like nutters across the moor to try and reach the Grey Horse Stone before the sun disappeared. We just made it!

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Oct 28, 2005
Image of Grey Horse Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by fitzcoraldo

The Grey Horse Stone in the autumn evening sunlight.
Three years down the road and the moor is regenerating itself nicely in many places, although not so well in others.

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Oct 27, 2005
Image of Grey Horse Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by stubob

09/04. Four months down the line from Fitz’s pic, and the grass is returning...well at least around the Grey Horse Stone.

stubob
stubob Sep 28, 2004
Image of Grey Horse Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by fitzcoraldo

Robert Knox reported this Druidical Stone Triangle is his 1855 book and Elgee reinforced the idea in 1930.

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo May 28, 2004
Image of Grey Horse Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by fitzcoraldo

Compare these photos with the ones taken in 2002 as an illustration of the damage caused by last years fire

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo May 28, 2004
Image of Grey Horse Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by fitzcoraldo

Compare these photos with the ones taken in 2002 as an illustration of the damage caused by last years fire

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo May 28, 2004

Articles

Grey Horse Stone

stubob
stubob Sep 28, 2004

This was the last visit of the day and what a crackin’ stone it is. Not too sure I get the ‘stone-triangle’.....dunno why, there are two other stones forming the triangle.....Just didn’t spring to mind that they were all part of the same thing, like the way say Ramsdale did/does.

Grey Horse Stone

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Nov 21, 2002

This lovely stone is situated on Stoney Marl Moor.
The easiest way to access it is to park up in the layby on the A171 where you will also find a caravan selling teas and assorted fried meat products.
Use the northerly footpath that runs by Cook House and then follow your nose onto the moor.
There are cup and ring marked rocks recorded on this moor and the search continues.
As the name of the moor implies, there are many rocks on the moor and the local stone contains ferruginous nodules that weather out to produce what I call pseudo cups, so be aware (they’ve caught me out a couple of times).
Further up the path there are some nice round barrows, one of which shows signs of recent disturbance. ( the ghost of Cannon Greenwell perhaps?).

Miscellaneous

Grey Horse Stone
Standing Stone / Menhir
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Jun 1, 2004

“Knox was perhaps the first to recognise the stone triangle. He records one from Ramsdale Hill Top, two miles west-south-west of Robin Hood’s Bay made of stones 4-6 feet high; also three small stones near a small barrow at Dry Heads, Harwod Dale. Another near Stoup Brow forms an acute triangle, the tallest stone known as the Grey Horse Stone being not more than 5 feet high”.

Frank Elgee
Early Man in N.E. Yorkshire
1930

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