The Grey Stone, Approximately 350 Metres South East Of New Bridge

HAREWOOD HAREWOOD PARK SE34SW LS17 SE31 4431 The Grey Stone, 6/78 approx. 350m south-east of New Bridge

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Ancient meeting stone. Perhaps Prehistoric. Huge gritstone boulder roughly octagonal with a pointed top. In its north face is a good example of a cup- and-ring mark - 4 concentric circles with wider central circle in which are several smaller circles surrounding the central boss, much the same in design as a Celtic shield. It is on a promentary some 350m above sea level directly opposite from Harewood House (q.v.) and within site of Great Armscliffe Crag at a similar height. Worked flints and an axe have been found near the stone and Professor Stuart Piggot (Cambridge) considers the incisions on the stone belong to the same period as the finds i.e. 2000-1500 BC. This stone is significant in that it may be from it that the name Harewood is derived. Professor Eilert Ekwall (editor of the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names) in correspondence with Mrs. S. E. Finlay (recorded at County S.M.R.) thinks it probable that Harewood is "Grey Stones Wood". Old English "Harawuda" would then be elliptical for "Hara-stanes-wudu", or "Wood by the stones". The first spelling for Harewood was "Harawuda" and first given in the C10. County Sites and Monuments Record (Wakefield).

Listing NGR: SE3147843085