Hob

Cup-marked stone near the path.
Rock art doesn’t come much simpler than this.

Looking south, the cultivation terraces on Headshaw Law are discernible in the background.

Looking to the east, there’s a Cairn and a settlement on the hill in the back ground.

Looking to the NW, the ‘nipple’ of Hownam Steeple to the left. The hole in the stone is just visible.

From the north, showing the Mound on which the stone stands.
On the far horizon, just to the left of the mound, is Long Knowe, a small hill behind which lies the Five Stanes circle.

Tallest stones of the southern circle. Other shots mysteriously vanished from memory card.

Tallest stone of the North circle, inexplicably cropped on the memory card.

It really is in the middle of a housing estate. Poor thing.

Based on the sketch in Beckensall’s “Prehistoric Rockart in Northumberland”.

The lichen obscures all but the deepest cups (and those visited by rabbits)

Side view of the largest stone, NW part of the circle.

An unprepossessing circle, tucked away in a fold of an excellent landscape.

The anomalous recumbent

Peeled, revealed and re-hidden. But are they pre-historic or connected with the lead mining?

It was rather windy, and I didn’t have the bottle to climb right onto the top for a better pic.

Summer 1992.
Is there a face?

Taken from the south. The hill is Ravensheugh crags.

Had this been there before the rest? Was it moved there? Is it just a gate post?

Apparently, this is the original bluestone.

You can’t see the caravans from this angle.