Robin Hood's Stone

Robin Hood's Stone (also called Robin Hood Stone or The Archer Stone ) is a Neolithic or Bronze Age menhir ( English Standing Stone ) that has stood on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road in Liverpool in England since 1928 . It originally stood about 90 meters away in a field known as “Stone Hey”.

description

Robin Hood's Stone is rectangular, about two meters high, less than a meter wide and half a meter thick. Deep grooves run across the stone and end at the original ground level when the stone was still in the Stone Hey. At its base there are cup-and-ring markings made of concentric rings with round bowls ( English cups ) in the middle.

Robin Hood's Stone was originally one of the Calderstones , but has stood in this part of Liverpool since at least 1771. The cup and ring markings near the base date it to the era of the Calderstones. A border dispute protocol from 1568 mentions that a Calderstone stone was removed around 1550.

literature

Ron Cowell: The Calderstones: A Prehistoric Tomb in Liverpool . Ed .: Merseyside Archaeological Society. 1984 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ “Hey” is an Anglo-Saxon word for an enclosure, possibly for animals. It is possible that a farmer brought the stone into the field to serve as a scratching stone for the animals.

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53.37094 -2.903533Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 15.4 " N , 2 ° 54 ′ 12.7" W.

[1] “Hey” is an Anglo-Saxon word for an enclosure, possibly for animals. It is possible that a farmer brought the stone into the field to serve as a scratching stone for the animals.