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Image of Old Man O’Mow (Cairn(s)) by postman

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Old Man O’Mow

We drove to mow cop and the castle built in 1754. there is a suggestion that mow cop was used as a watchtower by the romans although no evidence has been found of their occupation. i could imagine this though standing their looking out as it would make the perfect location for a watchtower. even more than this the place does feel like it could have been an important ancient site, especially because of the hills prominence on the landscape for miles around and the natural outcrop of rock that looks so dramatic breaking the view on the horizon between the earth and the sky. there are also some upright standing stones here within the rocks but i don’t know from when they originate. as well as all this though there is the old man o’ mow, which is situated on an ancient cairn, before the castle was built the cairn would have been the highpoint of the land and it is though that it was a burial mound linked to the bridestones, although it could simply be a boundry between two counties.

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Old Man O’Mow
Cairn(s)

At Mow Cop is a rude upright pillar, called the Old Man at Mow, and believed by the country people to have been an idol, once the object of worship. It is needless to add that the British word Maen signifies a stone, and that the prefix ” old ” or ” elder,” is merely a Saxon epithet to denote its antiquity.

From
Druidical Remains in Yorkshire.
by
J. K. Walker, D.D.
In
The Gentleman’s Magazine Library:
Being a classified collection of the chief contents of The Gentlman’s Magazine from 1731 to 1868
Edited by
George Laurence Gomme, F.S.A.

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