WYLD WALKS Episode 2 - Yeavering Bell, Ad Gefrin, College Valley and King Arthur?
In this months episode we're walking in the footsteps of Kings and legends. We're taking a look at the Royal heritage of Yeavering and it's surrounds.
Also in this episode - Gordon has a wash and we get a bit excited about a link to the legendary King Arthur...
And we get invaded by Van Life With Betty Boondocker - check them out here:
Wyld Walks Episode 1 - Northumberland: Wooler, Chatton and St Cuthbert's Cave
This month we take a look at Wooler and it's surrounding area - tracing the history of this part of Northumberland from more than 2000BC right through to the modern day.
We return to Kettle Hill and The Maiden's Well, get up on top of Ross Castle, have a closer look at Old Bewick, marvel at the ancient landscape of Cuthbert's Cave and explore the high ground around Kyloe.
Wooler to Yeavering Bell Hill Fort, North Northumberland ©
This is a fairly strenuous 6 - 7 mile linear walk starting from Wooler common car park and heading north towards Humbleton where you turn left onto a path signposted for Gleadsclough. From here you head uphill to the right of the broad track and head across country towards Yeavering Bell (or Gefrin) which has the remains of a large iron age hillfort spread across it's double peak. From there you can either drop down to the road at Old Yeavering or turn back towards Wooler along the St Cuthbert's Way to make it a circular walk if you have time.
A GPS download of this walk is available from my Viewranger profile:
Wherever you go stay safe, check the weather, plan ahead, let people know where you are going, take maps & compass with your gps and follow the countryside code.
Music: Holst. Brook Green Suite - Prelude.
A windy yeavering bell cheviots. Part 1
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The Palace of Gefrin
Take a look at one of the little-known but highly significant sites of ancient Northumbria, with a history spanning from the Stone Age to the Dark Ages.
Lordenshaw's Hill Fort and Simonside Hills ~ Circular Walk
A circular walk from the free car park at Lordenshaw's Hill Fort and ramble beneath Simonside Craggs ….. Northumberland in the sunshine...
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Graham Taylor of pottedhistory.co.uk making a replica of an Anglian pot from the excavations at Yeavering / Gefrin conducted by Brian Hope-Taylor.
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For over 5000 years people have been drawn to the prominent plateau of sand and gravel lying between the foot of the largest hillfort in Northumberland, Yeavering Bell, and the River Glen. They came for religious ceremonies, to live and bury their dead and to meet their rulers.
The earliest evidence of human activity at Ad Gefrin is flint discarded as flakes by Mesolithic peoples between 8500 and 4000 BC. While it is likely that their presence was transitory, more permanent settlement around 3500 BC by early farming communities resulted in flint tools and pottery being deposited in pits dug into the surface of the gravel knoll.
A thousand years passed by, at which time a stone circle was constructed on the site, and another standing stone was raised nearby. Around this time a large open space was created, encircled by a ditch which in turn was surrounded by a bank. The development of this 'henge' monument points to the significance of the site as a centre for ritual and ceremonial activity during the early Bronze Age (2400-1800 BC).
For the next 500 years the crest of the knoll was used as a cemetery for the disposal of cremated human remains, sometimes deposited within decorated pottery vessels.
(the gefrin trust)
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The Industrial Revolution which swept Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries inevitably caused major changes in Northumberland, and saw the growth of many new industrial towns such as Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Darlington and others. Steel, coal, railroads, shipbuilding and chemicals all brought prosperity. For the working masses, though, it was a different story. Poverty, long hours, unsafe machinery and overcrowding in new city slums were just some of the hardships they were compelled to bear, all of which led to the rise of trade unionism.
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Yeavering Bell - 26/08/2012
Fly down from the Bell
Alnwick Snow
First snowfall of the 2011-2012 winter in Alnwick Northumberland.
'Saint Cuthbert's Way with Dr Emma Wells' - Episode 3 Yeavering Bell to Lindisfarne
This week we mark the culmination of our journey back 1300 years to the Anglo-Saxon age of England, to finish our epic 100 kilometre hike through history along Saint Cuthbert's Way.
Dr. Emma Wells (University of York) once more is our guide across this landscape and through this time of Viking raids and Saintly piety as we trace the landscape and story of Saint Cuthbert.
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Yeavering: Sparrow Flight
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This image depicts a sparrow in flight across Yeavering to provide us with a bird's eye view. The analogy of a sparrow flying through a Great Hall was first documented by Bede (II.13). Paulinus had tried to persuade Edwin to become a Christian, but Edwin wished to consult his advisers and friends. This was the advice of one counsellor after hearing the chief Priest Coifi recommend that Edwin follow the new Christian religion: Another of the king's chief men signified his agreement with this prudent argument, and went on to say:
'Your Majesty, when we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter's day with your thegns and counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing. Therefore, if this new teaching has brought any more certain knowledge, it seems only right that we should follow it.'
The other elders and counselors of the king, under God's guidance, gave similar advice.
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Cheviot Wild Goats on north slope of Yeavering Bell July 2007