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Latitude: 53.883 / 53°52'58"N
Longitude: -1.5226 / 1°31'21"W
OS Eastings: 431478
OS Northings: 443085
OS Grid: SE314430
Mapcode National: GBR KRTJ.4S
Mapcode Global: WHC90.LN5L
Plus Code: 9C5WVFMG+6X
Entry Name: The Grey Stone, Approximately 350 Metres South East of New Bridge
Listing Date: 22 July 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1226199
English Heritage Legacy ID: 422873
ID on this website: 101226199
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS17
County: Leeds
Civil Parish: Harewood
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Collingham St Oswald with Harewood
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
HAREWOOD HAREWOOD PARK
SE34SW LS17
SE31 4431
The Grey Stone,
6/78 approx. 350m
south-east of
New Bridge
II
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
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