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Aykley Heads Round Barrow(s) (Destroyed) |
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Barningham Moor Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Batter Law Round Barrow(s) |
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Birkside Fell Cairn Cairn(s) |
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Bracken Heads & Stobgreen Plantation Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Brandon Long Barrow (Destroyed) |
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Bulmer's Stone Natural Rock Feature |
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The Butter Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Coundon Burn Long Barrow |
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Deepdale Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Eel Hill Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Eggleston Stone Circle (Destroyed) |
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Foggerthwaite Burnt Mound Artificial Mound |
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Hartlepool Mesolithic/Neolithic Forest Mesolithic site |
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Hummerbeck Round Barrow(s) |
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Lows Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Lune Head Stone Circle |
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Maiden's Bower Round Barrow(s) |
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Maiden Castle (Durham) Hillfort |
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North Lodge Cropmark Complex Enclosure |
Old Wingate
Long Cairn
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Pedam's Oak Earthwork Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Ramshaw, Burnhope Standing Stones |
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Rey Cross Stone Circle |
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Shackleton Beacon Hillfort |
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Sherburn Grange Cist |
Smotherlaw
Round Barrow(s)
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Stockley Beck Round Barrow(s) |
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St. Andrew's Auckland Hillfort |
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Swinkly Knoll Round Barrow(s) |
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Toft Hill Hillfort (Destroyed) |
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5 sites Upper Teesdale |
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West Brandon Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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White House Cup Marked Stone |
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Witton Gilbert Ring Cairn Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Unearthing history at 'prehistoric Glastonbury'"Stone Age Britons from across the North-East flocked to a prehistoric "Glastonbury festival" marked by mysterious rituals, a major archaeological discovery suggests... continues... |
Posted by Hob13th July 2007ce Edited 13th July 2007ce |
Stone Age descendents of Durham City discovered"Water works have uncovered the most significant archaeological site of ancient Britons in County Durham dating back 5,000 years. Northumbrian Water are building a new £3.5 million drinking water reservoir on the outskirts with views overlooking Durham City Cathedral and Castle... continues... |
Posted by Hob 13th July 2007ce Edited 13th July 2007ce |
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Barningham Moor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Links |
The Smell of Water - Barningham Moor |
Posted by fitzcoraldo25th December 2018ce |
Maiden Castle (Durham) (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by juamei25th March 2018ce |
Witton Gilbert Ring Cairn (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images |
  
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Posted by tjj7th May 2011ce |
Bulmer's Stone (Natural Rock Feature) — Links |
Durham County CouncilA photo of the hemmed in stone. |
Posted by Rhiannon16th March 2010ce |
Bulmer's Stone (Natural Rock Feature) — Folklore |
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You've got to feel sorry for this rock. It's got no space. And yet, legend has it that it turns round nine times when it hears the clock strike twelve. It used to sit proudly by the road on Northgate, and Willy Bulmer used to read out the London news whilst standing on it. But Health and Safety deemed it in the way, so in the 1920s it was moved behind railings at Central House to be safely out the way. It's also supposed to have railway folklore links. In the 1820s Edward Pease had a horse-drawn railway that took coal to the Tees at Stockton. George Stephenson is supposed to have walked from Stockton to speak to him, to persuade him to use his new fangled steam engine. Stephenson sat on the stone to re-tie his boots, apparently. (This information collected in a document about Northgate conservation area by Darlington Borough Council.) It gets a mention in the Denham Tracts: Rhyme on Bulmer Stone, Darlington.The rhyme must be pretty old, as it's from a book given to the Durham cathedral library in 1662, and it previously belonged to the church of Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire, so the Tracts tell us. |
Posted by Rhiannon 16th March 2010ce |
Barningham Moor (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images |
  
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Posted by rockartwolf16th September 2008ce |
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