Beefstand Hill

The Pennine Way near Beefstand Hill

The Pennine Way near Beefstand Hill

The Pennine Way near Mozie Law

The Pennine Way near Plea Knowe

Cairn on the summit of The Kip

The cone-shaped Kip is extremely prominent when viewed from the Mountain Refuge Hut at Yearning Saddle close to the border between England and Scotland. The hut can be seen in this photograph just left of centre in the middle distance. The hill in the far distance is Thirl Moor in Upper Coquetdale. For a selection of free to download walking routes in the area visit Link

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Foul Step - in the mist

The Pennine Way at the aptly named Foul Step, crossing the boggy area above the head-water of Foulstep Sike.

The Street towards Black Braes

The Street is an old drove road heading from Scotland to the site of The Slimefoot Inn by Trows Road End - much used as a smuggling route. In clearing mist and low cloud.

The Street approaching Swinside Law

The Street is an ancient drove road.

Rough Knowe

Taken from The Street, looking across the valley of the Rowhope Burn to Rough Knowe. The cleugh in the bottom right is Outer Green Cleugh.

Enclosure boundary of old settlement south of Lamb Hill

The bank is the western angle of a large rectangular enclosure, itself only part of a large and complex settlement which was probably largely pastoral dealing in the cross border trade. Although undated, the conditions of the banks and regularity of the features suggest a possible medieval date. See earlier photo here NT8112 : Moorland north-west of Yearning Law Pastscape: Link

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Ditched oval enclosure south of Lamb Hill Settlement

This ovoid ditched feature with a domed turf-covered mound inside (resembling a grounded flying saucer) is about 18 x 14m and fits the 1977 description of Yearning Law Burial Cairn Link

The six-digit grid reference (NT 814 125) given for this supposed late prehistoric monument is about 140m due east of the feature shown here. Alternatively, the enclosure could be related to the large presumed-medieval pastoral settlement 150m or so north-west which shows a large assembly of banked features NT8112 : Enclosure boundary of old settlement south of Lamb Hill. It may even be an even later, post-medieval agricultural feature referred to as a stack-stand, a description applied to an apparently similar feature located about 500m west. However this has also been interpreted as a sheepfold Link

The view is towards Yearning Law.

Unnamed burn below Lamb Hill

Blind Burn east of Yearning Hall

The conifers close to the ruin of Yearning Hall up on the ridge to the left are quite small in a photograph taken around 1980 and may have been planted soon after the house was abandoned in the 1940s. The Old Tracks through the Cheviots by David Jones with Coquetdale Community Archaeology (2017) The grass in the foreground is wavy hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa), growing like a red mist, waving in the breeze, on a patch of hillside that was probably burnt as part of a muir-burn of an area of old heather.

Light & land-use in the Cheviot Hills

View from the grasslands over the upper Blind Burn towards the heather moors of Beefstand Hill.