The steep slopes guarding the southern side. The western ramparts of the eastern fort are on the right.
Image credit: A. Brookes (20.10.2021)
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Approaching the forts from the east.
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Old Bewick on the right, showing the steepness of the hillside on its southern side. Seen from Tick Law to the southeast. The Cheviot dominates the skyline.
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The boulder on the escarpment edge, near the hillfort. Possible cupmarks on the upper end of the stone. Looking SE towards Tick Law (left) and Harehope Hill, both of which have cairns.
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Another of the Old Bewick 2 cup and rings.
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Simple cup and ring on the edge of Old Bewick 2.
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Multiple cup and rings on Old Bewick 2.
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The fabulous 6 concentric rings motif on the main panel.
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The top panel on the main boulder.
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Details of the two of the cairns on Tick Law from the SMR:
The two round cairns, 655m and 882m SSW of Blawearie are reasonably well-preserved and are highly representative of their period. The presence of upstanding remains indicates that the monument will contain archaeological deposits relating to its construction and use. The presence of a covered cist indicates that these will include below ground funerary deposits and comparison with other similar sites suggest that they may also include evidence of earlier funerary structures such as stake-holes or the remains of prior treatment of the ground surface such as ard marks.
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The monument includes the remains of two round cairns of Bronze Age date, situated on a north west-south east ridge-top stretching northwards from Tick Law. The southerly cairn (NU0810 2158), which measures approximately 7.6m in diameter and 0.4m in height, has evidence of kerbstones and a depression in its centre that has revealed a stone cist cover stone. To the north west is a second cairn (NU0825 2176) measuring approximately 7.6m in diameter with a height of up to 1.1m. The presence of kerbstones, a cist cover and the similarity between the two suggests them both to be funerary structures.
The grid reference for the second cairn doesn’t appear correct. The “southerly cairn” at NU08102158 is shown on the OS map lying to the NW of another cairn at NU08352132. The grid ref given for the NW cairn in the record would actually lie to the NNE not the NW of the “southerly cairn”. I found cairns at the two locations on the OS map, but I didn’t look for anything at the NNE reference above, which is in an area of deep heather.
Three cairns on the southeastern end of the ridge. GGAT descriptions, north to south:
Northern cairn at SO1315203399
A circular mound, with a slightly dished centre and well defined edges. The barrow is covered by grass and bilberry, but the composition is clearly of stone; a large upturned stone slab (probably the remains of a cist) is exposed in the centre, and six other large stone fragments are also evident. Many smaller stones are visible on the surface or can be detected by probing.
Dimensions: diameter 8.5m; height 0.5m.Central cairn at SO1317903242
A circular mound, with a dished centre and moderately well defined edges. The barrow is covered by grass and bilberry, but abundant stone can be detected beneath the turf.
Dimensions: diameter 6.2m; height 0.6m.Southern cairn at SO1297503097
An approximately circular mound on roughly level ground to the S of Cefn-y-Brithdir. The edges are poorly defined and difficult to discern, and the S half of the monument is badly damaged. The barrow is covered by grass and ferns but stone can be detected beneath the turf. At the centre, a leaning slab 1.1m long, 0.7m wide and 0.15m thick probably represents the remains of a cist; a few metres to the S a partly buried stone may be the dislodged capstone.
Dimensions: diameter c9m; height c0.7m
Ros Castle is the prominent hill, centre skyline. Further left along the ridge is Old Bewick hillfort. Seen from Brizlee Hill, Alnwick, over 10 miles away to the southeast.
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.10.2021)
Wychbury Hill is the prominent hill in the centre of the image. The viewpoint is The Four Stones on the Clent Hills, to the southeast.
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The southeastern flank. The stones in the foreground are the remains of the drystone wall that used to surround the monument.
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The nearest we got to the barrow, at this point I was being shouted at to leave the open hill as the thunderstorm was practically on top of us – the stone circle will have to wait for another day!
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Burton Bole round barrow, covered in heather and surrounded by shin-deep tussocky vegetation.
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Shatton Edge from the southwest. Burton Bole round barrow is near the highest point, set a bit back from the edge. Smelting Hill stone circle is over to the right, somewhere.
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The terrific view east from the barrow.
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Despite the erosion, it’s a pretty well preserved monument.
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The barrow was in the process of being fenced off to reduce erosion.
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Approaching from the west. The barrow on the right, the Great Ridge stretching away to the left from Mam Tor in the centre.
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