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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Tuesday, 15 November 2022  Page Views: 6847

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Thimbleby Nine Stones Alternative Name: Nine Stone of Thimbleby
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Standing Stones
 Nearest Village: Osmotherley
Map Ref: SE47099527
Latitude: 54.350802N  Longitude: 1.277027W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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
5

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SandyG visited on 14th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SE 47973 95903. From here follow the trackway south to SE 47978 95640 and take the fork to the right and walk to around SE 47280 95708. From here cross the moorland to the row. The considerable gap between the two groups of stones means that it is possible that this monument represents the remains of two separate settings. For this reason this site should properly be considered as a possible row.

Anne T visited on 9th Jun 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Nine Stones Stone Row, near Osmotherley, North Yorkshire: Having added a few of the Stone Rows of Great Britain sites on the Portal, and needing to go down to Thirsk it was too much of a temptation to resist visiting one or two of the North Yorkshire sites. With only a 3 hour window before having to travel onto Doncaster, the only one we could reach and explore in time was Nine Stones, just outside Osmotherley. We’ve been to this area before to look at Anglo Saxon crosses in churches and ended up getting hopelessly lost, but this time we had the OS map and our GPS. With the sun shining down from an almost cloudless sky, we reached the car park at Square Corner easily enough. It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many more people in this part of the world than in Northumberland. There were people picnicking on the side of the road near Solomon's Temple enjoying a wonderful view over Oak Dale valley and the woods of Crabtree Bank and Thimbleby Bank Plantations. As we pulled up, a number of dog walkers drew up, chattering noisily, and I hoped they weren’t going to follow us and destroy the peace and quiet of the afternoon (I’m definitely getting to be a grumpy old woman!). Fortunately, they followed the Cleveland Way up the hill to the south. From the car park, we walked the couple of hundred metres to the gate where the footpath west over Thimbleby Moor and the Cleveland Way southwards meet. The GPS told us there was almost 700 metres to walk to Nine Stones, so we set off over the stile over the wall by a second gate to the west. The first couple of hundred yards were easy walking along a stoned footpath leading off to some modern shooting butts to the west. After 200 metres we needed to veer off southwards to follow the dry stone wall westwards. This was all through knee deep heather with the occasional field drain and boggy patch thrown in. After another 200 yards we realised we’d reached a much quarried area; there were deep holes full of water which we could only see when we were almost upon them. I managed to disappear up to my ankles in one, although there were other that looked far deeper. Whilst the area has many blocks of stone poking up through the heather, towards the top of the slope there suddenly appeared on the horizon two standing stones, looming large, beckoning the walker. Here was (were?) Nine Stones, at last. This stone row was well worth the trudge through the undergrowth. At the northern tip of the row there are five stones, two tall, two stumpy and one almost buried in the heather. We wondered which were actually part of the stone row. The north-western most stone looked as if there had been an attempt to quarry the top of it in the distant past (comparing the holes to some at Edges Green, near Cawfields) that we’ve seen recently. Two more tall stones sit close to the stone wall, and a few more stones appear further south in the forested area. The Stone Rows of Great Britain site tell us that this stone row is 60 metres long, but husband, tramping through the forest, thought it might be possible that the row was nearer to 100 metres (but then which are natural stones and which are recumbent standing stones?). There are so many other features in this area to explore: Miley Pike Tumulus, Robinson’s Cross (remains of), a Holy Well, Faber’s Stone – well worth a repeat visit.

SolarMegalith visited on 11th Mar 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.67 Ambience: 4 Access: 3

Thimbleby Nine Stones
Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Photo taken in 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)
These Bronze Age standing stones are located in the southern part of Thimbleby Moor, North Yorkshire, near a field boundary. The northern pair could form part of the alignment, as not far from it there are several fallen stones. The southern pair is located next to the boundary, one of the stones could be a later marker. The site is marked on updated OS maps. Sandy Gerrard has surveyed this site, his photos and notes are on our page.

NE of the standing stones there are remains of a Bronze Age field system and enclosure.
Reference: Brown, P. and Chappell, G. 2012. "Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors". Stroud: The History Press, p. 127.

Update October 2019: This row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for The Nine Stones, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, a plan of the row, plus access information. The SRoGB describes a possible stone row measuring 57m long, including 12 small, medium and large stones; they note: "The considerable gap between the two (northern and southern) groups of stones means that it is possible that this monument represents the remains of two separate settings. For this reason this site should properly be considered as a possible row".

The row is also recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 55672, which describes "a complex of Bronze Age monuments, comprising a field system and nine standing stones, forming the possible remains of a stone alignment". Whilst the site is marked on the Historic England map when you enter its co-ordinates, there is no scheduling or listing information.
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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Photo taken in 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Plan of the Nine Stones stone row (Source: GPS survey by Sandy Gerrard). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SolarMegalith : One of the standing stones from the northern pair (photo taken on March 2013). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : From the wall, 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Looking south, 2011

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Some of the fallen/broken stones, 2011

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : South side of wall, 2011

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Looking southwest toward Black Hambleton, 2011

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Looking west, 2011

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Antonine : Looking southwest from Thimbleby Moor, on the south side of the plantation wall, 2011.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 10. View from south. This stone is orientated at 190° and measures 1.07m long by 0.60m wide and 0.34m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 11. View from south west. This stone is orientated at 90° and measures 1.1m long by 0.9m wide and 0.25m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 9. View from east with stone 8 beyond. This stone is orientated at 270° and measures 0.8m long by 0.45m wide and stands 0.98m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 8. View from south with stones 5 and 6 beyond. This stone is orientated at 285° and measures 0.85m long by 0.68m wide and stands 1.2m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 7. View from south west with stones 5, 6 and 3 beyond. This stone is orientated at 90° and measures 0.66m long by 0.3m wide and 0.34m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 6. View from north west with stone 5 beyond (Scale 1m). This stone is orientated at 170° and measures 0.66m square and stands 1.28m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 5. View from south east with stones 6 (left) and 3 beyond (Scale 1m). This stone is orientated at 34° and measures 0.82m long by 0.55m wide and stands 1.4m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 4. View from north east with stones 5 and 7 beyond (Scale 1m). This stone is orientated at 175° and measures 1.05m long by 0.54m wide and 0.46m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stone 3. View from north with stones 4 and 5 beyond (Scale 1m). This stone is orientated at 25° and measures 1.4m long by 0.54m wide and 0.46m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Stones 1 (left) and 2. View from north with other stones visible beyond (Scale 1m). Stone 1 is orientated at 260° and measures 0.4m long by 0.25m wide and stands 0.3m high. Stone 2 is orientated at 100° and measures 0.40m long by 0.25m wide and stands 0.2m high.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : Looking south along the row (Scale 1m).

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SandyG : The three largest stones at the northern end of the row. View from south east (Scale 1m).

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Anne T : Having clambered over the stone wall, there were three other stones clearly in the same alignment as those on the northern side of the stone wall. The ground was heavily 'littered' with other large boulders so it was difficult to pair them off precisely.

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Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by Anne T : Standing west of the pair of stones to the north of the stone wall, looking east.

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