<< Our Photo Pages >> Five Kings - Stone Row / Alignment in England in Northumberland
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Five KingsCountry: England County: Northumberland Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Rothbury Nearest Village: Hepple / Holystone
Map Ref: NT9574000102 Landranger Map Number: 81
Latitude: 55.295011N Longitude: 2.068633W
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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SandyG visited on 22nd Jun 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 2 Limited car parking is available at NT 95789 02379. From here follow the footpath south westward to the row. In common with most rows next to forestry watch out for ticks, but another hazard here was clouds of flies – fortunately of the non biting variety.
Anne T couldn't find on 1st Jan 2017 - their rating: Access: 3 Five Kings, near Grasslees, Northumberland: The easiest access looked as if it was from the footpath near Ovenstone Plantation off the B6341, just past Grasslees. Parking off the road at the entrance to the footpath, we headed off up the track - easy walking at this stage. 100 metres up the track there was a gate/stile with two display boards. Neither bore any similarity to each other, or to the OS map. We had intended walking up the footpath to its fork, 100 metres further up, then take the right hand fork following the stone wall up past The Long Chirn and Woodhouses to the Five Kings. Sadly (presumably being military land) this part of the footpath no longer exists and the walking was difficult (very tussocky, marshy ground). When the heavens opened (despite the weather forecast saying it would be fine!), we contemplated finding a second footpath through Dueshill Farm but it would be dark by the time we reached the stone row, so we decided to go somewhere else and headed back to the car and try another route on a better day. I was so disappointed, as this was a stone row I'd loved to have seen, but the Tosson Tower and Lordenshaw had to suffice for this afternoon.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Access: 2.5
Update October 2019: The Five Kings Stone Row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website, which includes a description, a plan of the row from a recent survey carried out in June 2018, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 1682 and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1009448(Stone alignment, 900m south-west of Holystone Grange). The Pastscape entry tells us that "one of the stones had been used as a gatepost, the other four are still in situ".
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