What is recorded here

Three limestone uprights break the undulating Wardhouse landscape, with one leaning against the central stone and another set forty-eight metres to the north-northwest. A single flint scraper appeared a hundred metres away during testing, hinting that people once walked this quiet ground. The stones may have marked a boundary, a memory or a meeting place, but they no longer explain themselves. They stand like an unfinished sentence, waiting for someone to remember the words.

There are three limestone uprights in an undulating landscape. The central one (LE001-013----) is upright with a similar stone (H 1m; L 1.7m; T. 0.5m) is leaning against it. There is a natural boulder to the N and a third upright (LE001-013002-) c. 48m to the NNW. Archaeological testing (01E0995) c. 100m to the NNE recovered one flint scraper as a stray find (Quinn 2003a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 December, 2015

Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, the standing stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with boundary markers or sites of ancient assembly.

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