The Warrior Stone

Nearest town:
Prudhoe (13km SE)
OS reference:
NZ044747
OS sheet:
87
Latitude:
55° 3' 59.64 N
Longitude:
1° 55' 51.94 W
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Images

Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Hob

Now in Alnwick Castle’s Postern Tower Museum.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Aug 28, 2008
Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Hob

Not the Sandyway Heads stone, this one was found in a wall in Ingoe, and is now in the museum at Alnwick Castle.

Image credit: John Collingwood Bruce
Hob
Hob Jul 17, 2007
Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Hob

Ingoe Wall stone.

Now in the Postern Tower museum, Alnwick castle.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob May 21, 2006
Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by rockartwolf

17/4/06

wolfy

cup and ring marked stone in front of the farm house.

Image credit: pebblewolf
rockartwolf
rockartwolf Apr 19, 2006
Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Hob

The burial mound in the field immediately to the east of the stone.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Oct 4, 2005
Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Hob

A rather nice bit of portabe rock art found in an adjacent field.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jul 17, 2004
Image of The Warrior Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Hob

Fantastic weathered grooves, viewed from above.
The stone is 6ft tall, but the monopod is taller.

Image credit: IH
Hob
Hob Jul 3, 2004

Articles

The Warrior Stone

C
CARL Oct 5, 2010

The Warrior Stone
Visited 22.9.10
Directions: drive through Ingoe hamlet and when you get to the fork in the road go right. Over the cattle grid and park on the grass (plenty of room). The top of the stone is visible on the brow of the hill to your left but is difficult to spot due to the trees in the background. Walk across the field, over the field gate and a short walk takes you to the stone.
The stone itself is weathered similar to the nearby Matfen Stone.
What remains of the Barrow can be identified as a low mound in the field near the stone.
The Warrior Stone is easy to access and worth a visit when in the area.

The Warrior Stone

Hob
Hob Jul 3, 2004

Keep going through Ingoe hamlet, don’t take the left fork in the village, it gets tangly. Rather, head along to the right. down the dip, and up to Sandyway Heads farm. The short hardcore track not marked on the map leads to the field with the stone.

The associated tumulus is on the other side of the fence, and looks badly ploughed out, can’t be more than 70cm above field level.

Excellent views over the Tyne valley, and further south across to Hexhamshire Common, and to the Simonside hills to the north, though the farmhouse obscures this.

On the way into the hamlet of Ingoe, check out the possible quernstone on the tiny village green by the fork in the road.

The stone itself is deeply grooved stone, like a few of the others in Northumberland.

Miscellaneous

The Warrior Stone
Standing Stone / Menhir
Chance
Chance Dec 18, 2012

Details of Stone on Pastscape

Bronze Age cup marked standing stone (in situ). One face of the stone is marked with seven clear cup marks and three small pecked marks. The stone is visible on air photographs.

(NZ 04347465) The Warrior Stone (TI). Standing Stone (LB). (1)
In a field south of Sandywayhead farmhouse, Ingoe, is a standing stone about 6 ft high, known locally as ‘The Warrior Stone’. Marked as “Stone” on OS 6” (sited NZ 0434 7465). (2)
A much weathered standing stone 2.0m high and 0.5m square at the base, with four distinct cup marks on its east face. See photograph. (3)
NZ 043 746. Sandyway Heads standing stone. Scheduled No ND/133. (4)
The Warrior Stone H00756 NZ 044 747
Close to Sandyway Heads in a field sloping to the south, this standing stone has seven clear cup marks on one face and three small pecked cups. (5)
A Bronze Age standing stone is visible as a structure on air photographs at NZ 0434 7465. (6)

Topics

Extraction 14
FourWinds
FourWinds
Jul 2004

Sites within 20km of The Warrior Stone

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