The Two Lads, watercolour 2022. High on Withen’s Moor are these two stone cairns built on top of large rocks, like a gateway. Folklore says they memorialise two lads who died in a blizzard up here in the Wilderness. A strange and lonely place.

Slack Bottom Stone, watercolour 2022, embedded in a drystone wall, under a Holly tree, near the hamlet of Slack Bottom high above the Hebden Water valley and Hardcastle Craggs.
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The Greenwood Stone, watercolour 2022. A boundary stone on Wadsworth Moor in. Calderdale is dated 1775 but much older. It was certainly recorded in the 16th century and is probably marked from the ancient ritual of “beating the bounds”.

Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, 2022 watercolour.
High on Midgley Moor in Calderdale, walking past the Miller’s Grave (you can see on the right) lies this odd landmark. A glacial erratic possibly, but it may also have been used as a plague stone? Penny stone was also a gambling game, so a meeting place.

The Miller’s Grave, watercolour 2022.
The Miller’s Grave is a Bronze Age burial cairn. The rocks have been removed from over the original mound revealing two strange stones lying beside each other. The Grave lies on Midgley Moor above Calderdale in Yorkshire.

Churn Milk Joan, watercolour 2022. A standing stone high above the Calder Valley, it was the subject of a poem by Ted Hughes.

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