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Natural PlacesSite Name: The Kielder Stone Alternative Name: The Girdle Stone, The Rocking StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.797 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Northumberland Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Hexham Nearest Village: Kielder
Map Ref: NT63690050
Latitude: 55.297259N Longitude: 2.573391W
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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Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Northumberland
A huge, natural, bedrock stone, weighing about 1400 tons.
The England/Scotland border deviates slightly from its watershed line here, to go through the stone.
Its a long walk over rough ground.
Walking three times widdershins (anti-clockwise, looking from above) around the stone is variously said to be good or bad luck. Its hard to see why anyone would deliberately or accidentally walk around the Stone three times, to get bad luck, so perhaps its good luck.
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