A short day today - there were thunderstorms predicted for the afternoon, so we took a shorter walk than planned.
Climbing up to a hill called the Beacon. Part of the path is being rebuilt - stones being set into stairs and paths to try to protect the heather moorland.
Bags of rocks - not sure how they got those up the hill
Hot, misty day
More of the new path
Neolithic, Iron age and medieval features in the landscape
Rock with neolithic cup and ring designs (c 5000 years old)
Part of the earthworks of an Iron age ring fort (c 2500 years old)
Circular depressions inside the walls of the fort - remains of roundhouses
Remains of walls. Looking towards Rothbury
Sharp's folly - built c1720 as a make work project for local stone masons and as an observatory
Down the last hill into Rothbury
Clouds starting to roll in as we eat lunch by the river
Wisteria in bloom
Armstrong cottages - built in 1896 as almshouses (same Armstrongs as Bamburgh Castle and Cragside)
A wander through the graveyard at All Saints Church in Rothbury (the church has beautiful bells which ring every quarter hour)
In the Armstrong family plot - replicas of an Anglo Saxon cross found near here, dating to about 800
Details of the neolithic cup and ring designs
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