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Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 13 November 2006  Page Views: 11842

Rock ArtSite Name: Bracken Hall Countryside Centre Alternative Name: Heygate Stone Exhibition
Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Bingley  Nearest Village: Baildon
Map Ref: SE132390
Latitude: 53.847075N  Longitude: 1.800849W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Heygate Stone submitted by rich32 : Heygate Stone taken 12/11/06 Taken with permission of the Bracken Hall Countryside Centre (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in West Yorkshire. The Heygate stone with its intricate carved cup and rings returns to Baildon Moor this weekend after a five-year absence to go on permanent public view at Brackenhall Countryside Centre.

The stone, which dates back around 5,000 years, was discovered by chance in 2001 by a local landowner out walking in his field.

Two years later the man - who was legally entitled to keep the find - donated it to Bradford Council's Museums, Galleries and Heritage Service for safe-keeping.
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And now people will get a chance to get up close to the stone which measures around 60cms high and 45cms wide.

The Heygate Stone exhibition has officially openeds at the countryside centre in Glen Road, the Council's archaeology expert Gavin Edwards explained:

"It was found on the moor and we've always been keen to get it back there," he said.

The Stone, which has been in storage, will be the centre of attention in a new exhibition telling the story of other bronze-age carved rocks also unearthed on Baildon Moor.

The stones are all part of a nationally important cluster of carved rocks across the district taking in Rombalds Moor and its internationally known Panorama stones and Swastika rock at Ilkley.

But one thing missing from the exhibition will be an accurate explanation of what the stone carvings are all about.

Mr Edwards said: "We still don't know for sure. There are hundreds of possible theories from observations of the sky to reconstructing family units in the landscapes, the small indentations could be huts and the rings could be enclosures.

"It's fascinating how the carvings could be telling us something about how our ancestors lived.

"What we do know for sure is when people come to look at the Heygate Stone they can be certain they are looking at a stone that someone else did four or five thousands years earlier before using their hands to make those mysterious marks.

"It's something tangible and real - but what we don't know of course is what that person was thinking at the time."

There is also a chance there could still be another part of the Heygate Stone still out there.

The stone, which measures 60cms high and 45cms wide, looks as though it could have broken off from a bigger piece.

At the launch, visitors joined in specially led walks to see some of the carved stones still left out in the open.

Mr Edwards led a 45-minute round trip taking in the Dobrudden Stone, discovered in the 1950s and later embedded in a caravan site wall.

Source, with photo: Bradford Telegraph and Argus

The Countryside Centre and Museum is free of charge and is open on most days of the year, including bank holidays, but closed for Christmas day, New Years day.

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum,
Glen Road,
Baildon,
Shipley,
West Yorks,
BB17 SEA.


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Great Walks: Saltaire-Ilkley, West Yorkshire by Andy B on Tuesday, 21 March 2017
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One of 22 great walks here
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/mar/18/22-great-spring-walks-in-uk
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Re: Follow up article: The Heygate Stone by RantonUFO on Tuesday, 11 August 2015
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Hi just a note for anyone wishing to visit to see the stone. The museum is now closed. However I was told today that it will reopen from October this year, 2015. Weekends only. And that the heygate stone will be back on display.
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Re: Follow up article: The Heygate Stone by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 20 October 2010
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Ok, sorry about that, I hadn't spotted it was already on. Sometimes certain site pages are difficult to find, or seem to be non existant. There might be a few details I could comment on, but most of what I said seems to be as above. I think I'm running out of sites for the north of England now. Thanks.
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Follow up article: The Heygate Stone by Anonymous on Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Thanks for submitting the articles on the public display of 'The Heygate Stone' in Baildon, West Yorkshire.

Unfortunately, the press story and releases from the Bradford Museum Service concerning the discovery, location and donation of this beautifully carved rock are totally misleading and confusing, so I thought I would provide an accurate account to readers of The Megalithic Portal.

The story that 'The Heygate Stone' had disappeared for several years and that it 'was returning home to Baildon Moor where it was found' is a total nonsense.

The stone was discovered on 25 Sep 2001 at NGR SE 1594 4018 close to the village of Baildon, Shipley West Yorkshire in a field of glacial clay soils, once known as the Near Hey Gate field.

The landowner (Moorside Equestrian Centre) was digging out the base of the ruined field wall for use elsewhere and, at the same time, decided to dig out a rock from the field close to the field wall, which he had first noticed poking through the grass 50 years previously. When the rock was dug out and turned over, he noticed 'patterns' on the buried surface and took it back to the equestrian centre, believing he had possibly found a fossil of some sort.

The landowner is a friend and I happened to pass an hour later and was astonished to see this superb carved rock. I was very excited, knowing this to be very first carved rock with double rings to have be found in the Baildon Moor, Shipley Glen and Baildon area (though there are many spectacular examples to the North on Rombalds/Ilkley Moors.

When I advised the landowner of what it was, he immediately agreed to my proposal to have the find reported and, since the location of the find could not possibly have been the original location of the carved rock, to have it relocated in a place of safety on public display.

An immediate report was made to West Yorkshire Joint Services by telephone. I took initial photographs, produced an initial report with description and delivered it the next day to the Archaeologist at Ilkley Museum. Nothing at all happened and it seemed no one was interested!

Two years later, in November 2003, I was told that Keith Boughey, who lives in Baildon, together with E A Vickerman were publishing their 'Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding: Cup-and-Ring-marked Rocks of the Valleys of the Aire, Wharfe, Washburn and Nidd' Yorkshire Archaeology 9, ISBN 1 870453 32 8. (An excellent book for those interested).

I contacted Keith who immediately came out to see the find and arranged for it to be properly photographed, drawn and described. Unfortuately, his book was already at the printers and it was too late to have 'The Heygate Stone' included.

But Keith got things moving and Bradford agreed funding for its public display. The landowner and I insisted that it be displayed in the Shipley Glen Countryside Centre on the edge of Baildon Moor and not in the Ilkley Museum so that people could see it as close as possible to where it was found.

The carving on the Heygate Stone appear to have almost certainly formed part of a much larger carving. The edges of the stone appear to have been dressed to two faces like much of the stones that were in the field wall (now completely removed). It is likely that the stone was moved to the find location when the field was originally enclosed.

Overshadowing the Moorside Equestrian Centre to the North (NGR SE 156 403) are quarries that were worked into the 20th Century. Much nearer to the location of the find, about 50 metres from it at SE15868 40262, is a small old quarry, now completely covered to a depth of several metres by decayed farm manure. The most likely source of the Hey Gate Stone is the surface of that old quarry.

Extensive field walking by me has failed to turn up any further piece of the sone and it seems probale that it was lost when it was quarried. (So please do not visit the site of the find -

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