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| Tumulus | Tumulus | Mr Arkle | About 48 chains N.W. | A large mound of earth situate between two standing | ||
| Tumulus | Whites Directory | of Sandyford | stones and was evidently used as a place of interment | |||
| Tumulus | Hodgsons History | it was opened in 1718 and found to | ||||
| contain a stone coffin but neither bones urns coins nor | ||||||
| inscriptions was found hence the name of the warrior | ||||||
| or chieftain whose remains were here intered is for ever | ||||||
| consigned to oblivion | ||||||
| The Poind and His Man | The Poind & His Man | Mr Thomas Arkle | About 48 chains N.W. | Two large natural stones erected on end but by | ||
| The Poind & His Man | Hodgsons History | of Sandyford | whom or for what purpose cannot be ascertained | |||
| The Poind & His Man | Table Book of Northumberland | . Lord W |
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| in 1552 directs the watch to be kept at the two stones | ||||||
| caled the Poind and his man with two men nightly | ||||||
| of the inhabitants of Bolam (Table Book) | ||||||
| Hence it appears the same name was applied to these | ||||||
| two stones previous to the above date | ||||||
| Edw. Gillespie Sapper Royal Engineers |
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