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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sewingshields CragsCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.295 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Northumberland Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Map Ref: NY8042570857
Latitude: 55.031847N Longitude: 2.307778W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Anne T visited on 8th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Sewingshields Crags Possible Stone Row, now known to be a boundary feature: I'm putting this on for completeness, as Andy B has added this as a site in it's own right; for my originalvisit report with more details, see Simonburn (Davy's Lee) Stone Circle visit report, 20th July 2014.
Having spotted a group of features on the map that looked interesting: Davy's Lee Settlement, Davy's Lee Stone Circle and various tumuli, we decided to take advantage of the sunshine and walk to this area. The previous weekend, we'd visited Standingstone Rigg, near Great Lonbrough Farm. If we had continued south along the footpath for a couple of kilometres from Standingstone Rigg, we would have reached Davy’s Lee from the north. Instead, we took the opposite approach, from the south, from the old military road (B6318). My husband parked the car by the Old Repeater Station (parking on the Old Military Road being sparse and difficult, with soft verges, lay-by's virtually non-existent and fast-flying cars driving up and down) having dropped me off at the farmhouse 100 yards west from this road junction, on the opposite side of the road, by the footpath up to Sewingshields and Sewingshields Crags. We’ve done this walk before, to see the Roman fishing loughs, but with this walk, we needed to follow the path nortwards past the farmhouses, round the back of Sewingshields Crags to the bottom of the hill, then turn off a track to the left hand side (approx. Grid reference: NY 80653 70820). The track disappears for a while, so we headed left up a bank with what looked like quarried stone at the top, running in a double row running approximately east to west (approx. Grid ref: NY 80393 70793).
Note: at the time of writing, I am going along to this area next week to help survey a group of stack-stands and/or sheilings (12th to 15th) so will have another look at this feature then.
The possible stone row contains 28 visible stones and extends 34 metres from NY8044770864 to NY80425 70857.
Source: Landscape Survey North of Sewingshields Crags, 18th - 22nd March 2014 Initial Summary by the Tynedale Archaeology group
[March 2015 Update: Phil Bowyer writes: When our group did a subsequent Level 3 survey with a professional archaeologist the interpretation of the feature was revised to a boundary feature (possibly prehistoric but certainly old) rather than a stone row.]
Some other findings in the report: Immediately south of the ridge Tynedale Archaeology group recorded two north-south alignments of large stones running up to the ridge. One of the stone alignments continued north of the ridge.
"Just south of the summit of Queen’s Crags, in the vicinity of HER12409 Enclosed Romano-British
Settlement we discovered low stony linear features that may be the remains of associated field boundaries on both east-west and north-south alignments."
"Adjacent to the external round house recorded under HER12409 we discovered an earth fast cup-marked boulder decorated with a crescent of 5 single cups. This stone lies some 60 metres east of a large cup-marked boulder which we discovered in 2012. No rock art has previously been recorded in the vicinity of Queen’s Crags."
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