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Natural PlacesSite Name: Rocking Stone (Warley Moor)Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Halifax Nearest Village: Warley
Map Ref: SE0339930199
Latitude: 53.768126N Longitude: 1.949914W
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 / Glacial Erratic in Yorkshire (West)
The Rocking Stone is a gritstone outcrop on Warley Moor. On one end of the outcrop there is a perched stone that must be the rocking stone, but it had already ceased to rock when described by John Watson in 1775 (The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, in Yorkshire, T. Lowndes, London, 1775, republished by E.J. Morten, Manchester, 1973, p. 26).
At the other end, there is a passage that can be crawled through, now used as a shelter by sheep. Watson maintained that the passage was used for druidic initiation rites. This would not be very significant, were it not for the traditions surrounding a crawlable hole in another gritstone outcrop, Ponden Kirk, a few miles away.
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this legendary rock - see their entry for he Rocking Stone, Warley Moor, Halifax, West Yorkshire, which gives directions for finding this outcrop, together with photographs, a brief archaeology & history, a 1775 and a 1913 drawing of the rocking stone and a recent photograph of some "dubious cup-markings".
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