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Little Skirtful Carvings, Burley Moor, West Yorkshire
Cup-Marked Stones: OS Grid Reference – SE 1383 4519 Also Known as: Carving nos. 391a, 391b, 391c, 391d Little Skirtful of Stones’ Carvings Getting Here Follow the directions to reach the Little Skirtful of Stones giant prehistoric cairn. Once here, … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Rock art, petroglyphs, Bronze Age, folklore, Archaeology, death, tombs, antiquities, antiquarian, ilkley moor, folk-lore, legends, West Yorkshire, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, cairns, burial, Wharfedale, Burley-in-Wharfedale, giants, Rombald, sacred sites, archaeological, prehistoric sites, earth mysteries, Burley, heritage
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Acrehowe Cross, Baildon Moor, West Yorkshire
Cross (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 143 406 Also Known as: Rerehowe Cross Archaeology & History Once found on the other side of the road from the prehistoric circle of Acrehowe Hill, this old cross was destroyed sometime in … Continue reading
Posted in Crosses, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Airedale, antiquarian, archaeological, Archaeology, Baildon Moor, Bradford, christianity, church, Crosses, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, earth mysteries, England, folk-lore, folklore, heritage, history, markets, medieval history, megalithic, Megaliths, plagues, Rock art, sacred sites, shipley, Standing Stones, traditions, West Yorkshire
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Brown Law (310), Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 13191 46512 Also Known as: Carving no.149 (Hedges) Carving no.310 (Boughey & Vickerman) Getting Here Get to the Cow & Calf Rocks, go up across the car-park as if you’re gonna go up … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, carved stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, earth mysteries, fairies, folk-lore, folklore, Ilkley, neolithic, petroglyphs, pit-and-groove, prehistoric sites, Rock art, Rombald, Rombalds Moor, sacred sites, vandalism, Wharfedale
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Holy Well, Humphrey Head, Allithwaite, Cumbria
Holy Well: OS Grid Reference – SD 389 739 Getting Here To get here you have to travel right to the end of the road, then walk a short distance until you hit the horrible coastal waters where there’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Cumbria, Holy Wells
Tagged Allithwaite, antiquarian, antiquities, Cumberland, Cumbria, faerie, fairies, fairy, Flookburgh, folk-lore, folklore, healing, Holy Wells, hydromancy, Kent Bank, Lake District, little people, Morecambe Bay, sacred waters, spas, water
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Rudstoop Monolith, Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire
Standing Stone/s: OS Grid Reference – SD 99269 23650 Getting Here From Mytholmroyd, go up the Cragg Vale Road, then 2 miles up take the road steep on your right down and round St. John’s Church, then keep going along … Continue reading
Barmishaw Stone, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire
Cup-and-Ring Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 11193 46417 Also Known as: Barnishaw Stone Carving I/4 (Davies) Carving no.92 (Hedges) Carving no.253 (Boughey & Vickerman) Getting Here Follow the same directions to reach the superb Badger Stone carving, and from … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Archaeology, Bronze Age, carvings, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, earth mysteries, fairies, folk-lore, folklore, ghosts, Ilkley, ilkley moor, neolithic, petroglyphs, prehistoric art, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, shamanism, spirits, West Yorkshire, Wharfedale
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St Austin’s Stone, High Hunsley, East Yorkshire
Legendary Rock: OS Grid Reference – SE 933 344 Also known as: St. Augustine’s Stone St Austin’s Rock Folklore The folklorist John Nicholson (1890) wrote about this “block of natural concrete standing at the head of Drewton Dale, near South … Continue reading
Posted in Sacred Nature, Yorkshire, East
Tagged animism, antiquities, druids, earth mysteries, East Yorkshire, Elmet, folk-lore, folklore, healing, High Hunsley, Holy Wells, legendary rocks, legends, myth, North Cave, paganism, sacred sites, saints, South Cave, South Newbald
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Nussey Green (404), Appletreewick, North Yorkshire
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – SE 0739 6254 Getting Here Park at Stump Cross Caverns on the B6265 road, then walk down the road for 200 yards till you reach the track on your left running over the fields … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Appletreewick, Archaeology, Bronze Age, carved stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, folk-lore, folklore, ghosts, Grassington, legends, neolithic, North Yorkshire, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, Skyreholme, Wharfedale
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Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – TA 097 677 Getting Here To get to the monolith travel along the B1253 road to the west of Bridlington for about 5 miles or from York take the A166 in an easterly direction … Continue reading
Great Stone of Fourstones, Lowgill, North Yorkshire
Legendary Stone: OS Grid Reference – SD 66972 66292 Also Known as: Big Stone Four Stones Getting Here From near the middle of the large village (or small town!) of High Bentham, go down Station Road, over the river — where … Continue reading
Posted in Lancashire, Sacred Nature
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, boundaries, creation myths, cup-markings, devil, earth mysteries, folk-lore, folklore, High Bentham, Lancashire, legends, Low Bentham, Lowgill, megalithic, Megaliths, moots, perambulations, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, Yorkshire
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