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| Duddo Four Stones | Duddo Four Stones | Revd W. C. King, Vicar of Norham | On Sheet | This name is now invariably given | ||
| (Druidical Temple, Remains of) | Mr Ebenezer Black, Grindon | 6.14 | to <u>five</u> crude stone or pillars, four | |||
| Duddo Four Stones | Mr Alexr Davison, Overseer | of which are standing and the other | ||||
| (Druidical Temple, Remains of) | is fallen. The largest of these stones is supposed | |||||
| to be about eight feet in height, they | ||||||
| It is doubtful as to whether | are placed on the summit of a gentle | |||||
| this place was a Druidical Temple | rise, and are thought by some people | |||||
| or a monument to Victory. | to be vestiges of a Druidical temple | |||||
| "Duddo Four Stones" merely written | and by others the site of a Battle. | |||||
| on plan. | Hutchinson’s History of Durham | |||||
| Approved RB | Vol 3, P 505 states – "In Dudhowe | |||||
| farm about a quarter of a mile to the | ||||||
| North-west of the village is a monument | ||||||
| of the Victory at Grindon A. D. 1558 – now | ||||||
| called Dudhowe Stones, placed on the | ||||||
| summit of a gentle eminence. The | ||||||
| stones are six in number in a circular | ||||||
| order, forming an area of ten yards | ||||||
| diameter, four of the stones are standing, | ||||||
| and the sixth demolished. | ||||||
| The largest stone is about eight feet | ||||||
| in height". | ||||||
| John Callanan 2nd Corporal Royal Engineers |
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