<<< Back
Title: Standing Stone, Stones Farm, Todmorden - TAL00366
Click on the photo to enlarge. Click here to Comment
To license a hi-res version of this image or order a print: Copy the full title, including the number and quote this when contacting us. Not all images are available to license or print.
Title
Standing Stone, Stones Farm, Todmorden - TAL00366
Description
Set on a high plateau above Gauxholme in the ancient township of Hundersfield is a prehistoric monolith of Kinderscout gritstone. Standing nearly 12 feet high, it is the fourth tallest standing stone in Yorkshire. It is roughly squared to face the compass points and in alignment with it to the west is another smaller stone, suggesting they may have had some astronomical purpose as fore and back sighting stones. It could also be a grave marker and boundary stone, as in some parts of Britain it was customary for a person to be buried on the boundary of his land with a monolith to mark the spot. Indeed Todmorden means ‘Totta’s boundary valley’. Nearby Walsden means ‘valley of the Welsh’, indicating Celtic or British settlements on the boundary of the ancient Kingdom of Elmet.
Text from Calderdale Architecture and History.
AN 70083191
Text from Calderdale Architecture and History.
AN 70083191
Creator
Geo Wright, 17 Fair View, Todmorden
Source
Todmorden Antiquarian Society
Rights
PHDA - Todmorden Antiquarian Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
TAL00366.tif
Citation
Geo Wright, 17 Fair View, Todmorden, “Standing Stone, Stones Farm, Todmorden - TAL00366,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/27311.
Comments