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.
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!
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 multiple rings are shown quite clearly, though it is pointed out that the stone is probably displaced from it’s original position, based on the assumption that the row of stones in which it is found, may be a medieval field wall.
