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Sheet 86 Plan 6 Parish of Stamfordham

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Standing Stone Standing Stone Sir Edward Blackett Bart 11 Chains S.E. of This is a A large stone errected for by
Standing Stone Mr. Edward Rowell Tilehole Plantation Druidical worship the Druids which gives the
Standing Stone Mr. William Sample name to the adjoining farm house (see the
Stob Stone Wallis’s Northumbrian Antiquities Hists of this Co for further particulars)
Wallis’s Vol II Page 141 (it is about
10 feet high, with & about 20 inches wide & south
& In inches East & West of a face
X "In a field on the East side of the vista is a Circular"
since destroyed mount with a round cavity in the middle, of the form
of the Celtic Tumuli or Temples, An upright stone
or Pillar standing by it 9 feet high above the ground"
Wallis History
Dewlaw Dewlaw Sir Edward Blackett Bart 46 Chains NW of An ordinary farm house the
Dewlaw Edward Rowell Tilehouse Plantation propery of Sir Edward Blackett Bart
Dewlaw William Sample
Dewlaw White’s Directory
Hope Lane See name book of
Sheet 86 Plan 7
Hutchinsons View of Northumberland
"Adjoining to the East side of the vista is a rude stone column"
9 feet high , near which lately stood a Tumulus which
on account of building a farm house has been destroyed."
"I humbly conceive it was not a Celtic Temple as Mr Wallis calls it"
"I am induced to apprehend this was the Mausoleum of the Druid tribe
and of the remotest Antiquity."
Thomas Grehan
Civil Assistant

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