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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hart Heugh - Stone Circle in England in Northumberland

Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 25 August 2003  Page Views: 8686

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hart Heugh Alternative Name: Ray Sunniside
Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Stone Circle

Map Ref: NT968260  Landranger Map Number: 74
Latitude: 55.527726N  Longitude: 2.052247W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Hart Heugh 2
Hart Heugh 2 submitted by Andy B : Part of the Burnham family trip to Northumberland, August 2002 (Vote or comment on this photo)
A little known stone circle recently rediscovered by a local archaeology group. Hard to see in the undergrowth, but another biggie, alsmost as big as Hethpool.

Note: Listen to the new BBC Radio 4 programme on this site: Unearthing Mysteries: Tri Radial Cairns in Northumberland - see comments
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Hart Heugh 1
Hart Heugh 1 submitted by Andy B : Part of the Burnham family trip to Northumberland, August 2002 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hart Heugh 3
Hart Heugh 3 submitted by Andy B (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hart Heugh 4
Hart Heugh 4 submitted by Andy B (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hart Heugh 5
Hart Heugh 5 submitted by Andy B (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hart Heugh Stone Row 1
Hart Heugh Stone Row 1 submitted by Andy B

Hart Heugh Stone Row 2
Hart Heugh Stone Row 2 submitted by Andy B

Hart Heugh Stone row 3
Hart Heugh Stone row 3 submitted by Andy B

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Re: Hart Heugh by Anonymous on Monday, 25 August 2003
See also this in Current Archaeology Nov 2002
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Re: Hart Heugh by Andy B on Monday, 25 August 2003
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Listen to this fascinating BBC Radio 4 programme: Unearthing Mysteries
Tri Radial Cairns in Northumberland
Tuesday 19 August 2003 11.00-11.30am

The moors of Northumberland are an ancient landscape. They are littered with trackways, medieval field systems, Iron Age hill forts and Bronze Age burial cairns. But among them, members of the Borders Archaeological Society began to notice rough piles of rocks in certain alignments, with arms pointing North and to the sunrise at special times. Were they just old sheep shelters with chance alignments, or could they be an important relic of ancient ceremonies in this ritual landscape?
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    Re: Hart Heugh by Anonymous on Monday, 25 August 2003
    Really fascinating! This is something new.
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    Tri Radial Cairns in Northumberland by Andy B on Thursday, 15 March 2018
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    A few years ago, members of the Border Archaeological Society were surveying prehistoric remains in the hills above Wooler in Northumberland. Retired aircraft engineer Jim Nesbitt noticed a pile of stones that seemed to be laid out as three radial arms several metres long. He remembered seeing something similar further south near Rothbury. Once the archaeologists new what they were looking for they began finding them all over the place - more than 20 to date. Eventually, they got permission to excavate one. When they began, the stones were barely visible above the peaty soil, but excavation showed that this was indeed a so-called tri-radial cairn with its three arms each about five metres long. It did not seem to be associated with a burial but was close to a field of Bronze Age burial cairns. So what was it and who put it there?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/unearthingmysteries_20030819.shtml

    The radio programme may be still there if anyone can work out how to convert from the RealAudio file:
    rtsp://rmlegacy.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/um_20030819.ra
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