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A discription from Coflein goes like this

A cairn is reported 30 yards
north-west of this squat
monolith

The eight figure grid reference for this site
is SN 67575384 ,and the National Primary
Record Number (NPRN) is 303534

Gawd knows when history began here,but the museum states that there was first a neolithic prescence,then a bronze age hillfort later giving in to the iron age .The castle itself warrants a mention built by Ranulf 6th earl of Chester he married into the Plantagenets and on returning from the crusades built Beeston castle .
Beeston crag is all sandstone (as is everywhere within 50 miles )and the big single hill thats in the middle of a chain of hills known as the mid Cheshire ridge mentioned by Burl as a prehistoric route from Yorks to Shrops .
There are also two caves one big but closed due to cave-ins and another shallower one .
The castle walls follow the Iron age ramparts, and what seems to be a rock cut ditch (of unknown date ,to me anyway)leads to the entrance.
The views are amazing,and at least 6 counties can be seen,It even has a small standing stone(not sand stone) I wouldve asked about it but it was closing time and the kids were hungry