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Newbeggin Stone Row
Trip No.96 Entry No.1 Date Added: 12th Sep 2018
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Newbiggin Stone Row (Stone 5) submitted by Anne T on 28th Mar 2017. This stone, number 5 on Dr. Rich's map, also sits on the wall to the left of the footpath running between Newbeggin and the A66. It is somewhat more obvious than the others. It is sited at NY 46849 28893.
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Log Text: Newbeggin Stone Row: We went along to Newbeggin armed with permission from a number of landowners to walk along their boundary stone walls to look for other possible standing stones. We found a few more, but these looked more like erratics which had been shaped and used in the stone walls. I will document these and send them off to Sandy G for comment.
We got to see the stones outside Sycamore View/House with the farmer, who said the archaeologists said they were probably rubbing stones, although the farmer said they weren't (currently) tall enough even for sheep to rub against. There were certainly no signs of animals having trodden away earth at the base of the stones.
Motherby (Cumbria)
Trip No.96 Entry No.4 Date Added: 13th Sep 2018
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Motherby (Cumbria) submitted by Anne T on 13th Sep 2018. The well chamber is some 10+ metres further along the wall towards Motherby village, with the well chamber directly underneath the wall. An iron gate on either side of the wall gives access to the well itself.
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Log Text: Well, Motherby, Cumbria: This is a very old village, with very picturesque cottages and farm houses. The well is not recorded on either Pastscape or Historic England.
The ‘wall’ is a strange structure. Following the line of stones up the hill, it ends in what seems to be a building platform and possibly an old quarry. The footpath at the village end of the footpath was closed due to building work, so we couldn’t investigate further.
I have emailed Mark Brennand at Cumbria County Council to see if he has any information. The line of stones follows an old footpath on the 1860 OS map, together with the letter 'T' (troughs?) where the troughs are currently located. No mention of the well.
Kells Well (Newbeggin)
Trip No.96 Entry No.5 Date Added: 13th Sep 2018
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 1 Access 5
Kells Well (Newbeggin) submitted by Anne T on 13th Sep 2018. Standing to the east of the well, looking back across the road which leads into Newbeggin to the left and to the junction with the B5288 to the right. There doesn't appear to be a well trough any more, although all the ground around here is wet and spongy, indicating its the site of a spring.
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Log Text: Kells Well, Newbeggin: This well is located opposite a house called Rockholme on the OS map, and near the Clickem Inn, just south of the B5288
The farmer from Sycamore View told us about the well, saying it had recently been “done up and claimed for the village” by the villagers. This was more like a glorified rubbish tip – the place was horrible, one of the worst places we’ve stopped at in years.
There was an old pebbled path leading round the well, together with the remains of an old stone structure, now largely covered in weeds and falling down. There was a pool of water to its northern side, and the whole of the central area around the stone structure was boggy and puddled; a small stream ran to a partly culverted ditch just to the north. Horrible. Glad to escape.
Redhills Rock Art
Trip No.96 Entry No.6 Date Added: 14th Sep 2018
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 4 Access 4
Redhills Rock Art submitted by durhamnature on 29th Oct 2012. Photograph from "Transactions of the Cumberland Archaeological Society" via archive.org
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Log Text: Sockbridge / Redhills cist, small stone circle and round cairn (now all destroyed): We went to see this site as part of our amateur investigation of the possible Newbeggin Stone Alignment. Whilst the location is glorious, overlooking a steep scarp slope to the River Eamont below, and views to the hills of the North Lakes to the south, nothing can be seen here at all.
Just to the north of the scarp slope, there is a faint, very shallow, sub circular area, with one very broken stone at its edge, now almost buried in nettles. This stone is very unlike any of the others around Newbeggin in shape, almost looking like a mudstone rather than sandstone or limestone. This stone did have veins of quartz running through it, along with a few inclusions.
It was worth coming to this site for the walk and the scenery. We approached using the footpath from Sockbridge village, walking through a field of enormous Friesian cows, then a huge field of recently harvested sileage, then using the footbridge over the River Eamont, and up the hill, veering off to our left after the limestone pavement that ran along the top of the scarp slope.