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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hunstanworth Moor northCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.683 km away from the location you searched for.
County: County Durham Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Stanhope Nearest Village: Townfield
Map Ref: NY9398546500
Latitude: 54.813321N Longitude: 2.095118W
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 28th Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Hunstanworth Moor North, Townhead: Being the day of the Blanchland and Hunstanworth Show, this road was very busy, and it was difficult to stop as the road was narrow and there were no obvious lay-bys or pull-off points (there being a nice ditch at the western side of the road and a steep bank up to the field on the east).
Spotted this stone as we were passing by on the way to the stone approx. 575m south and retraced our steps to photograph it.
Again, after having done searches on the internet, not been able to find out anything about it, like it’s ‘partner’ further up the hill.
I'm very interested in two roadside stones on the road that leads from Townfield to Rookhope on the border between Northumberland and County Durham. I suspect they might just be marker or boundary stones but they're still intriguing and I wondered if anyone had any info. They're on the right hand side of the road as you travel northwest towards Townfield. They're about quarter of a mile apart, and I think intervisible. Bolt's Law hill rises behind them - they're edge-on to it. They're four-to-five feet tall and heavily covered with lichen. I can't see any surface marks or carvings. The first stone inclines sharply, the second is upright.
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