Stob Stones In The Cheviots
Stob Stones In The Cheviots - Fabulous North
The Stob Stones or (Stob Stanes if you are from over the border in Scotland) are known locally as the Gypsy Stobs as they mark the spot where the gypsy kings ...
The Stob Stanes, Yetholm Common and the Anglo-Scottish Border
The "Stob Stones", two standing stones, are situated 230 yds W of the Border and over 1000ft OD. One still erect, measures 4 1/2ft wide at the ...
Stob Stanes | History & Heritage - Scotland Starts Here
The stones now lie just a few metres from the Scotland/England border which largely follows the eastern edge of what was Yetholm Common. The Stob Stanes play a ...
Matfen Standing Stone in Morpeth - Fabulous North
Sometimes known as the Stob Stone, the standing stone itself is thought to date from the Bronze Age (approximately 3300BC to 1200BC) and stands 2m high (6ft 6in ...
Stob Stones - The Modern Antiquarian
'Stob' perhaps refers to the stones' stumpy appearance (those with a more violent imagination could create a story around the alternative ...
Stob Rig (Yetholm) Misc. Earthwork - Megalithic Portal
Walking up the Pennine Way towards the Stob Stones, with Humbleton Syke to your left hand side in the valley below, there are two earthwork ...
White Law In The Cheviots - Cheviot99
From the parking just follow the Pennine Way up to the Stob Stones then the clear path onto the border ridge which will take you straight to White Law.
The Cheviot (Cairn(s)) — The Modern Antiquarian
Stob Stones. Standing Stones • 8.61km WNW. description 2 link 1. Dod Hill East (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery). Dod Hill East. Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 8.7km ENE.
The Hanging Stone [[3047047]] was used as a boundary marker between the East and Middle Marches, divisions of the Anglo-Scottish Border, ...
The Cheviots - Scottish Agates
The Cheviots represent the most southerly Scottish outcrop of the Old Red Sandstone lavas and are centered around a large intrusive granite core.
Cheviot — early Devonian volcanic rocks, granite and basement
Above the falls, near the stone sheep fold, the Standrop Variety appears. This is an even, medium-grained rock rich in dark minerals.
... Stob Stones. Picture. And the signpost telling you it does - we were heading towards White Law. Picture. Fudge is in Scotland and Angie is half in England.
The Savage Spirits of the Cheviots – The Duergar of Coquetdale ...
“Half a mile from Harbottle is the Drake Stone, a very interesting relic, being the Draag stone of the druids… The custom which still prevails in Harbottle, of ...
Cheviot Hills Agates - Scottish Gemstones
The Cheviots straddle the border between Scotland and England, and agates ... Polished Stones · Agates Collapse child menu. Formation · Locations · Angus ...
College Valley and Elsdonburn, Cheviot Hills, Northumberland
We left them to it and climbed the bracken slopes beside the Wideopen Burn where whinchats were singing wee-chit-chit! Up beyond Wideopen Head we found the Stob ...
Set foot in Scotland - What's On • Northumberland National Park
An enjoyable circular walk to the border via Trowupburn and Wideopen Head. We step foot over the border to the Stob Stanes, to admire the vast panoramic view.
The Named Stones of Northumberland (revisited)
Geologically, the rock of the Hanging Stone is a hornfels, a metamorphic rock altered by the ancient intrusion of Cheviot granite.
Around the Village - the Gateway to the Cheviots - Yetholm Online
... stones. The treeless hilltops themselves are also the product of human ... Stob-Stanes mounted cavalcade in particular. The tradition of a ride-out is ...
The Origin and structure of the Cheviot Igneous complex
These vents might well have been aligned along a central zone of fracturing in the folded and faulted Silurian sedimentary bedrock, a zone that might now be ...
Madam Law In The Cheviots - Cheviot99
For this route, you simply follow the Pennine Way, skirting Green Humbleton Hillfort, past the Stob Stones until you get to Wideopen Head. Then keep the ...