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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Holy Stone (North Tyneside)Country: England County: Tyne and Wear Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Tynemouth / Whiteley Bay Nearest Village: Holystone / Benton
Map Ref: NZ30137066
Latitude: 55.029561N Longitude: 1.530187W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Anne T visited on 3rd Feb 2018 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Holy Stone Cross Base, North Tyneside: Having been to the industrial estate nearby, we decided to try and track down this stone. Donning wellies, as there had been torrential rain the night before, we followed the footpath from the Holystone Pub/Premier Inn (where there is a car park almost next to the A19, just north east of the pub) towards Holystone Farm, crossing the bridge above a busy railway line. At the recently built Holystone Cottage, another footpath runs north east across the fields towards the A19. The stone is supposed to be located at the junction of the footpath and the front wall of Holystone Cottage.
By chance we met a couple of dog walkers, and I asked them if they knew of this stone. The man said he was brought up locally and remembered playing in the fields at the back of the cottage, where there a three foot high stone they used to gather around. He said the stone had been destroyed some years ago, but the cross base might remain.
He walked us to the spot where he remembered the stone being, but nothing. He did say that there had been recent site investigation in the field, prior to building new houses.
We did find what looked very much like a cross base in the corner of a neighbouring field at NZ 30210 70783. This looked very convincing from the side, but from the top, there was what might have been a long, thin, damaged slot, very unlike the carved slots we've seen in other cross bases.
This site is marked on the OS map as a 'holy stone' and recorded as Pastscape Monument 26667 as the socket stone of a probably wayside cross. Local tradition says it is said to mark the site of a resting place for St. Cuthbert's body, on its way to Tynemouth. Pastscape tells us the socket stone measures 0.7m square with a socket hole measuring 0.2m by 0.15m and is made of local sandstone.
The grid reference puts this immediately next to the junction of the lane leading to Holystone Farm and the path to the east of the recently built Holystone Cottage. We found no sign of the stone, having searched in a radius of around 150 metres.
By chance, we met up with some dog walkers, and asked them if they had heard of this cross base. The gentleman replied that he had been brought up Forest Hall, locally, and could remember playing around a 3ft high stone in the middle of the field behind the cottage, at approx. NZ 30106 70756. He very kindly walked us to the location he remembered, but there was no sign of a cross base or the remains of a stone. He did add that the field had recently been surveyed/investigated for building works, and the cross base might have been removed.
After scouting around the area, at the northern end of the field, another footpath leads under the A19, and tucked away at the corner of this field at NZ 30210 70783 is a square shaped, cut stone. If this the cross base that has been moved, there is no distinct socket hole.
The last Pastscape reference to it was dated in 1968, so it would be interesting to find out what has happened to this stone.
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