27-4-03. View to the south-west-ish, over Wooler towards the Cheviot.
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The outcrop of Buttony is now covered by trees, inhabited by deer (I heard one but couldn’t see it).
To find it from the southerly part of Gled Law look to the east, you can see a Pill Box on a hill. The Wooded area behind it contains the Rock Art. My OS map shows it as open countryside but the trees are quite mature.
To the southern edge of the wood is a gate, the rock art is up towards the north-west of the area.
The largest slab is open to the sky so is “spotlit” on a bright day; the two intertwined carvings are towards the top end of the outcrop.
Well worth stooping through the trees :-)
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27-4-03.
The large slab with carvings on the side.
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27-4-03.
View along the outcrop. In the sunshine is the large slab.
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Taken 27-4-03.
Like two bigs boobs!
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23-4-03. I had just been up to Kettley crag and decided to investigate the Kettley Stone marked on the OS map; this rock is the only feature in the immediate vecinity so I presume this is it.
It’s in a very sheltered little valley, with a fort, settlements and rockart nearby. Only the rabbits here now.
Does anyone know anything about it please ?
Can’t find it in my book.
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23-4-03. misty spring evening looking west.
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23-4-03. Evidence that perhaps the farmer isn’t keeping the cows off after all!!
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23-4-03. view to the south-east, towards the black shed next to the lay-by and access stile.
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Taken 23-4-03. With the sun right across.
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Visited 21-3-02 – Just found these pictures, some of the first I took with my digital camera, and before I changed my name to Pebblethief...
Wonderful to visit this site – one of my first.
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I love this sheltered snug. Visited at 9am on this sunny spring morning. Can’t escape the perpetual motorway noise, but no-one else was around except for a skiving postie in the car park.
Some evidence of swings on the trees, small bonfires and seats made of stones. Anyone remember Murun Buchstansinger?
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13-4-03. View to the north. If you squint you can just about make out the blue sign for the M6 turnoff!
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Just had time to pop here on my way back from the Megs. Also failed to find any rockart... I think Stan makes it up sometimes :-)
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This stone is on private land – you can just about see the top of it from the nearest public path. I had come all this way... wasn’t gonna give up...not a soul to ask... it called my name...honest guv
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If you park near Swinburne Castle the first bank is directly in front of you: walk down the public path the rest are easy to find.
Not easy to tell if these banks were built or natural, and the terraces carved in.
Didn’t see a soul here, the only noises were dogs, presumably kennelled near the manor house – quite eerie.
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13-4-03
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& Tumulus. Taken 13-3-04 from the south west.
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Taken 13-4-03. North Face.
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Taken 13-4-03. View to the East
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Taken 5-4-03. “Cut Here” = Almost quarried.
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16-3-03. The one that’s usually covered in cowcack.
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