The Skinner Howe Cross Road was the old packhorse route to the Cistercian nunnery in Baysdale. Just after it crosses Great Hograh Beck there is a large boulder named on the Ordnance Survey map as the Lamb Stone. It’s a large sandstone boulder that shows signs of man’s hand at work. A square edge looks as though it’s been cut by a circular saw (see detail). Perhaps it was the work of the amateur archaeologist Roland Close (1908 – 1978), who lived in Baysdale. Close built the small bridge over Great Hograh Beck. But would he have had a circular saw in the 1930s?
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