Contributory members are able to log private notes and comments about each site
Sites Anne T has logged on trip number: 141 (View all trips)
View this log as a table or view the most recent logs from everyone
Joicey Shaft a
Trip No.141 Entry No.1 Date Added: 1st Jul 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Joicey Shaft a submitted by Anne T on 1st Jul 2019. ERA/NADRAP says there are two cups here, the one to the east "fed by a natural gully from above". We thought we found three cups, marked with the red arrows, but there were so many erosion features, it was difficult to be certain.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Joicey Shaft A: With the most of the rest of the UK enjoying warm sunshine, up in this part of Northumberland, the storm clouds had gathered. Having checked the weather forecast to make sure rain wasn't due to arrive until this evening, we set off to find these rock art panels, within easy reach of a road. This road was marked on the old OS map as a bridle path, but on the modern OS map it is now a metalled, yellow road, indicating it can be driven down.
OK, the road isn't the best, being potholed in parts, but the stone can be found just through a gate across the road at NY 82906 66462. Both boulders are on the northern side of the road, about 40m apart.
Being here was really wierd, as holes had been drilled in the northern-most gatepost, and as the wind howled through them, it played a tune, the 'melody' varying between different notes dependant upon the width of the hole.
I managed to photograph panel A before the rain started to come down, then we had to sit in the car for 10 minutes or so before there was a break in the clouds.
In walking back from panel B, I spotted through the gate on the south side of the road, a lump which looked like a cairn. I almost dismissed it as a farmer's manure dump, but realised the tractor track respected its western side (albeit cutting it a little). Andrew has just pointed out it is shown on the 1860 OS map.
Joicey Shaft b
Trip No.141 Entry No.2 Date Added: 1st Jul 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Joicey Shaft b submitted by Anne T on 1st Jul 2019. Photograph showing the Panel B boulder in relation to the track running to its south. The boulder sits on top of other stones, apparently the remains of an old field boundary/dry stone wall.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Joicey Shaft B: This boulder is only 40m or so to the WSW of panel A, and is the only other large boulder in the field near this location. It is propped on top of other stones, part of the demolished field wall that ERA/NADRAP talk about.
ERA/NADRAP talk about two possible cup marks, which I found by comparing the shape of the stone with the NADRAP drawings. We also thought we saw two more, but these may be just solution holes or natural erosion.
Joicey Shaft Cairn
Trip No.141 Entry No.3 Date Added: 1st Jul 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Joicey Shaft Cairn submitted by Anne T on 1st Jul 2019. The cairn as seen from the gate into the field at NY 82860 66456, showing how the farmer has driven his tractor over the western side of the mound, but the track 'bends' away from it, respecting most of the mound.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Joicey Shaft Cairn: I spotted this mound almost by accident as I was photographing Joicey Shaft B from the track. At first I dismissed it as a manure heap, or possible tailings from the leading mining which used to take place here, but the more I walked round it, the more convinced I was it was a cairn, especially with its proximity to the rock art panels on the opposite side of the track, and because the modern field boundary and the track leading N-S to its western side 'bent' round to accommodate most of the barrow.
It is not recorded by HE or Pastscape, but it is on the old OS maps, so has been here for a while.
Tony's Patch 1
Trip No.141 Entry No.4 Date Added: 1st Jul 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tony's Patch 1 submitted by Anne T on 1st Jul 2019. The irregular 'cups' seen from further down slope, using flash to give a bit more contrast/depth. At the time of our visit, on the warmest weekend of the year (so far) the heavens opened and we got drenched. The light was so bad it was like dusk.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Tony's Patch Rock Art: The information for this nature reserve said there was room to park one car by the stile into the field at NY 81961 65368, and indeed there was, but only just. As we readied ourselves to walk towards the wood, the first spots of rain started, but we decided it would only be a short shower, so thought we'd walk down anyway, and if the rain got heavy, we'd be sheltered in the wood. Ha!
From the stile we headed ENE across this field of, for the most part, knee high grass, heading towards the gate into the nature reserve. Then followed the path through the wood, finding a small turn off to our right to this stone at about NY 82262 65565. By this time, the rain was hammering down, and we had started to get soaked.
I don't think anyone had been here for some time, as the branches from the trees had grown right over the rock and I kept getting caught up in them.
We eventually found the cup marks at the bottom, right hand side of the rock, where the rock starts to become 'undercut'. We needed to push some of the bracken aside to see them.
I really don't understand how NADRAP could have classified these are having ben made by water running over the rock surface? Where are the water channels that would have worn? Or if these were solution holes, the rock must have been in a different position for these to form.
Having photographed these as best I could in the very low light levels, we headed back to the car. By this time, the grass in the field was wet, but we waded through. I don't think my walking sandals will ever be quite the same!