Stob Stones
The Stob Stones are a pair of stones, one standing and one on its side, on the border of Roxburghshire and Northumberland. They are situated east of the hillfort at Green Humbleton, near to both the Pennine Way (high-level route) and St Cuthbert's Way long-distance footpaths.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland visited the stones in 1938. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire (1956) states "Both stones are of native porphyry and are locally called the 'Gypsy Stobs' from the tradition that the kings of the Yetholm gypsies were crowned here."
Mack suggests that they are boundary marks, set up on the line of the Border; if this is correct they may be of early mediæval date as this point is on the section of the Border that the English commissioners of 1222 regarded as fixed.[1]
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References
- ↑ The Border Line - Solway Firth to the North Sea, J L Mack, 1924
Outside links
- Location map: 55°32’10"N, 2°14’10"W