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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Long Stone (Adel) Alternative Name: Long Stoop (Adel)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.993 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Leeds Nearest Village: Cookridge
Map Ref: SE25014119
Latitude: 53.866326N Longitude: 1.621168W
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

no data Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

no data Access:

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.

no data Accuracy:

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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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Yorkshire (West)

Located to the north west of the junction of Cookridge Lane and Cookridge Avenue, nothing is really known about this standing stone. Is it lost, been moved, or been destroyed?

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) feature a page for this stone - see their entry for Long Stone, Adel, Leeds, West Yorkshire, which includes an 1879 drawing of the stone by Henry Simpson, together with his description: "In a hedge-row, or rather stone row…is a remarkable, ancient monolith, it is thirteen feet in height; from its slender character, it does not appear to have formed one of a trilithon, but rather to have constituted a memorial of some sort, or as a beacon of some usefulness. I can discover no barrow or earthwork near the spot. There are remnants of a quarry close by, with a mound of earth arising therefrom, but no indications to give a clue to the meaning or use of this single pillar. It is composed, moreover, of millstone grit, which is not to be found in the immediate neighbourhood, so it must have been brought from a distance and placed in its present position. Some suppose this to be a Roman stoup or pillar, designed for a landmark; but it bears no mark of Roman worksmanship. It is crude in the extreme."

TNA adds: "There is no available folklore known to the Long Stoop, although a long straight path terminated where the monolith stood. This path was one of many in an intricate geometric lay-out of perfect circular and dead straight tracks in the woodland immediately south of here [now built over], with four-, eight- and twelve-fold lines intersecting each other over a very large area. It may be that this large, seemingly lost standing stone, could have been a part of the ornate grounds that were laid out here in bygone centuries, perhaps erected by the architects behind the project."

Note: TNA asks if anyone knows anything about this stone? Possibly even for someone to go out and search for it perhaps propping up an old wall somewhere?
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