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Basin on the roof of the shelter. View to the north with Cheviot on the horizon.
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Small standing stone just north of the shelter. Cheviot on the horizon.
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The Dod Law cist cover, which was on display in the Museum of Antiquities of Newcastle University until it closed a couple of days after this photo was taken. Hopefully it will be on display once again when the Hancock Museum re-opens as the Great North Museum in spring 2009.
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From ‘The Local Historian’s Table Book of Remarkable 0ccurrences, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, connected with the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham’ by Moses Aaron Richardson, 1844
Drawing dated 1836
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From George Johnston’s ‘Botany of the eastern Borders’ 1853.
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3b.
Directionalism and scale courtesy of the D&NRAP.
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Medieval boundary running right through a BA cairn? Quite possibly. But it’s not half bleak out there.
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Fitz’s eroded CnR as it was on the 29th, covered in plant matter.
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Previously unrecorded little standing stone.
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In the style of J. Collingwood Bruce’s “Incised Markings on Stone Found in the County of Northumberland, Argyllshire and Other Places’‘
see also:rockartuk.fotopic.net/c1184529.html
(They hadn’t found Ketley Crag’s carvings back in 1869, but if they had, I’ll bet they would have had a double spread in the book)
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Home made carving in miniature to try and show how the carvings might look (but when compared to Stan’s photos, you can see I’m being a bit over-hopeful...)
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The Hatless holed Taula standing knee-deep in gnarly tanglitude
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A couple of highly iffy cup-mark like things on one of the roadside stones. Given the oolitic nature of the stone, it’s more than likely that these things are natural.
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