Stoneshifter

Here's a GoogleEarth image of the main field at Kirkhaugh which has a clear shot of the Long Mortuary Enclosure. This is listed on the county SMR but hasn't been scheduled or anything.

This picture was taken amongst the suspected Bronze Age \ Iron Age settlement site. A section of hut wall is in the foreground and the new roadway can be seen in the background. This road was made without following Planning Permission regulations.

This low cairn is in the middle of the Burnt Edge stone row, where it changes orientation. Some of the kerbstones may be identified – so it's probably a ring cairn – and Winter Hill is in the background.

This stone is certainly one of the Brown Stones stone row and probably was once stood upright. The carved grooves are within the rock art lexicon and are not to be confused with glacial erosion. This hefty lump of Millstone Grit has yet to be visited by an archaeologist.

Horrocks Moor barrow – perhaps it's half of a pair – can easily be found by looking for these long-horned cattle (they're quite tame!).

That bent stick, in front of the horse, points at the cairn ...

A view of the Herdley Bank Long Barrow, Coanwood, from the other side. The trees obscure what's left of any forecourt.

Find the South Tyne Trail – it's the old railway line – at Thornhope and look for Lintley, the farm. Walk along the trail, toward Alston, until the first bridge is reached. It's about level with Far Town, the farm, on the road. The cairn is in the field to the eastnortheast of this bridge just thirty metres away. More photographs (and a name) welcome!

We are not alone – allegedly!

Just a few yards from the Warded Way, this stone may have originally been upright.

This is the 'satellite' cairn to the Colouring Crags long barrow. The shooters' road can be identified in the distance. The butts – the places where the shooters rest their guns – were built by the late Ted Ridley in 2003. One of them is actually on the cairn and another cairn, a mile away and in the valley, has been rebuilt into a hen shed!

An aerial view of the new shooting road, near High Shield, Slaggyford, a mile and a half west of Thornhope. The digger, shown in another picture here, can be identified in this view, as can a gamekeeper's landrover. This image was captured in late May 2008 and the homestead listed site can be made out in the centre. (I'll remove this image in a couple of weeks time) ...

The large standing stone between these two cairns, on Green Hill, can be seen in the sunshine from a mile away. It may be an erratic or it may have been transported artificially. It is of the nature of the stones in the Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle, nine miles away to the SSW. Very fragile ...

Relton's Cleugh Cist – there's no lid, no contents and no overlying cairn – but the location is everything! I believe that if the landowner or shoot owner knew that this was a prehistoric artefact then it would be destroyed fairly rapidly. It's listed on the Northumberland SMR – apparently.

The new illegal road's principal quarry, spot bang on top of a listed Bronze Age/Iron Age homestead site, about a mile west of Thornhope.

Newly discovered Long Barrow a few miles north of Thornhope, at Coanwood.

Here's a poorly scanned Kodachrome slide of the Colouring Crags Long Cairn in Knarsdale, Northumberland, about a mile and a half, as the crow flies, from Thornhope. The long barrow is forty five metres long and oriented with the higher end toward the NNE and, probably, the most northerly moonrise. There's a smaller satellite cairn nearby also.

The depression at the top of this tumulus probably corresponds to a chamber at the base which has collapsed.

This is Holden's Farm barrow and is easily found from Coalpit Lane.