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Raven's Rambles: The Hitching Stone
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Wednesday, 17 November 2010. Enigmatic, impressive, and largely ignored. The search for the huge Hitching Stone took us on single-track roads through the windswept fields and moors of the Pennines, south of Skipton. Sorry, but it’s an impression I couldn’t shake off. The most obvious feature on the rock was the hole. About eight feet from the ground, begging to be explored…. A little pond atop this massive boulder? One local legend recorded by John Gray...
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Raven's Rambles: November 2010
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Wednesday, 24 November 2010. Local gods for local people? I love amateur local historians! They're often an untapped seam of little-known stories and obscure information that has yet to find it's way into regional guidebooks. And they make it their business to know what's going on in their immediate area. Elaine sent me a copy of the English Heritage Inspector’s report, which said:-. The rock carved human figure… is the only example of Romano-Brit...
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Raven's Rambles: The Stones of Stone Lane in, er, Stone (near Todmorden)
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Sunday, 24 January 2010. The Stones of Stone Lane in, er, Stone (near Todmorden). These standing stones are almost unheard of, but one of them must be amongst the tallest of menhirs yet to be discovered by the masses. We had little idea of the beauties that awaited us! The map doesn’t actually show the position of the stones, but the settlement of ‘Stones’ has a ‘Stones Lane’, so we reckoned that they couldn't be. 8216;Is that a standing stone? It sat o...
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Raven's Rambles: The great Grey Stone of Harewood
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Wednesday, 20 January 2010. The great Grey Stone of Harewood. A magnificent boulder, must be 10 feet high! We parked in the layby at the junction of the A61 and the tiny road from Wike village. A place occasionally frequented by car thieves so lock up your valuables if you leave your vehicle there! A grand tranquil vista of rolling parkland, designed by the great Capability Brown, spread out before us! The rock art expert Graeme Chappell. Tells us that ...
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Raven's Rambles: January 2010
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Sunday, 24 January 2010. The Stones of Stone Lane in, er, Stone (near Todmorden). These standing stones are almost unheard of, but one of them must be amongst the tallest of menhirs yet to be discovered by the masses. We had little idea of the beauties that awaited us! The map doesn’t actually show the position of the stones, but the settlement of ‘Stones’ has a ‘Stones Lane’, so we reckoned that they couldn't be. 8216;Is that a standing stone? It sat o...
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Raven's Rambles: The Black Horse Of Bush Howe
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Monday, 11 January 2010. The Black Horse Of Bush Howe. The first time that I came across the almost mythical 'Black Horse of Bush Howe' was at the impressionable age of fourteen, in a book entitled 'Brigantia'. For me the strangest part of the tale was it's inconclusiveness. Apparently, the locals can't decide if it exists or not! Philips asserts that not one mention of it is made in any of the guidebooks describing the Howgills and surrounding region.
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Raven's Rambles: Local gods for local people?
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Wednesday, 24 November 2010. Local gods for local people? I love amateur local historians! They're often an untapped seam of little-known stories and obscure information that has yet to find it's way into regional guidebooks. And they make it their business to know what's going on in their immediate area. Elaine sent me a copy of the English Heritage Inspector’s report, which said:-. The rock carved human figure… is the only example of Romano-Brit...
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Raven's Rambles: The Druid's Temple
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Friday, 15 January 2010. The name of this place conjures up images of a vast megalithic site, perhaps equalling Stonehenge in grandeur and mystery. The site. Impressive, but it’s not some ancient prehistoric construction. It was built in the 1820’s by a wealthy landowner, Mr William Danby, a squire of nearby Swinton. An enlightened industrialist, he created this folly to give local men an income during a time of high unemployment. This dank hole in the ...
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Raven's Rambles: Holy Handgrenades Batman! It's Orgonite!
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Wanderings and Wonderings, Meanderings and Musings. Tuesday, 5 January 2010. On a recent walk across Ilkley Moor, drifting along with no definite destination in mind, we stumbled across a rather curious object. It soon became apparent that the object was an example of an ‘HHG’ a ‘Holy Hand Grenade’. Made of a fibreglass resin, containing metal shavings and one or more quartz crystals, the materials can apparently change any harmful ‘negative etheric energy’ in it&#...These devices have many desirable eff...