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Archaeology, folklore & myth of Britain's pre-christian sites & heritage: stone circles, holy wells, maypoles, tombs, archaic cosmologies and human consciousness. Everyone welcome - even Southerners!


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    Rudstoop Monolith - only just !

    QDanT
    QDanT


    Join date : 2011-05-29
    Location : Earby used to be in Yorkshire

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    Post  QDanT Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:06 am

    after reading Pauls update http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/rudstoop-monolith/
    I thought I'd go and take some photo's, for him Wink . First the car parking at the reservoir has been closed for the year along with the footpaths around and no parking on all aproach roads due to building work at the res. so I parked at the V in the track.

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    It didn't look good spotting a dumped stone with bucket marks on it just through the "locked" gate

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    flat base ?

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    I climbed over the gate

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    to be met with a pile of rubble and fresh gauged boulders

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    It wasn't looking good but I followed the GPS to find :- at 1 SD 99268 23655

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    there were boulders showing in the grass all the way down the field

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    with an interesting group at 2 SD 99273 23593

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    and a "snaped" stone laying in the field on the way back to the gate red arrow points to break

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    and looking over it back down to the Rudstoop

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    Allthough I had the full dinner kit with me coffee, wine, butties the whole area felt depressed and I was glad to leave and stop by a stream on the way back home ! Paul feel free to use any of the photo's
    cheers all Danny
    Sunbright57
    Sunbright57


    Join date : 2011-02-10
    Age : 66
    Location : Nelson - the one in Lancashire sorry to say!

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    Post  Sunbright57 Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:23 pm

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    Paulus
    Paulus


    Join date : 2009-08-20
    Location : Yorkshire

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    Post  Paulus Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:00 pm

    Naathen lads - don't start falling out, or we'll send Mad Bob round! scared

    ...But I like the images Danny - and good to see the big fella's still lying there in the field. If I knew you were going, I'd have pointed to the other potentials here. When I lived in Hebden Bridge, a few visits up here got me talking with Mr Local Farmer - an old dood who could talk for England, and who knew all sorts of old tales. It was he who pointed me to this very spot for the stone, "but it got knocked daan few year back," he said. "Used to be a few in a sorta line running to t'farm," he said, heading east-west. "They've all been knocked ovver though."

    And on GoogleEarth it shows what may be some of 'em along the line he told us about.
    Ruffinogold
    Ruffinogold


    Join date : 2013-05-21
    Location : Mineral Bluff Georgia / USA

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    Post  Ruffinogold Tue May 21, 2013 1:08 pm

    If for any reason to join this forum .... QdanT pictures are well worth it Very Happy
    QDanT
    QDanT


    Join date : 2011-05-29
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    Post  QDanT Thu May 23, 2013 11:29 am

    thanks Ruffinogold, I'll send your fee in small used notes !
    just go's to show how easily un-recorded (other than amature) history is lost
    and yet for the effort involved and the meaning in building thousands of years ago ?
    No one gives a shit now !

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