Web14 Jan 2005 · Among the new discoveries is a collection at Goatstones, near Wark, where 14 carved stones were recorded for the first time. 'Prehistoric adventure' Others to feature on the website will be the country's largest collection of rock art in one place, at Roughting Linn. WebWark was also once the capital town of Tynedale, and still retains a Town Hall, rather than a Village Hall. A Bronze-age stone circle known as The Goatstones is located near Ravensheugh crags in Wark parish. Governance. Wark is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. Transport

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WebIn Scotland there are 54 monuments, or traces of monuments, which are or might have been four-poster stone circles, and there are a few in England. They are mostly in Perthshire, with a cluster on the Isle of Arran and scattered ones … http://tynedalearchaeology.org.uk/3dimages.html shark tale fish characters

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WebThe Goatstones is a Bronze-Age four-poster stone circle located near Ravensheugh Crags in Northumberland, England. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the north of Hadrian's Wall in the parish of Wark-on-Tyne. The name is thought to be derived from the Saxon "gyet stanes" meaning "wayside stones". The monument probably had some kind of religious purpose. WebIt comprises man-made platforms, standing stones, cup-marked slabs and other features. The alignment in question is from the so-called 'Oak Bank' stone, a recumbent slab situated on a ridge, to a natural outcrop with a single cupmark some 35 metres to the SW. 7. Alignment is to the rising midwinter Sun to the SE. WebThe cist contained the crouched skeleton of a female, aged 30-40 at death, and of the brachycephalic or broad, round-skulled type characteristic of the Beaker people, together with the usual beaker. The skeleton shows the wound on … shark tale fandub