Show on map Job Cross now stands isolated, a distance from the current footpaths and roads.
It originally marked where the Castleton to Moorsholm road crossed the Old West Road.
It is relatively modern (c1800) compared to some moorland crosses and features herringbone patterns on the sides.
Show on map Duffin Stone is a natural rock feature that stands right on the edge of the road in Farndale.
Despite it’s location it’s never been removed and is now deeply scored and marked with paint from passing traffic.
Show on map A short distance up the road to Lastingham from yesterdays Low Cross, is High Cross
This is another medieval wayside cross which has become broken at some point in the past.
Also a Grade II Listed Building, it stands at the junction of Kirkgate Lane and Wensdale Lane.
Show on map This medieval cross could be easily missed despite being a Grade II listed building. It may actually be an earlier prehistoric standing stone.
It looks like a sign or plaque was attached at some point in the past.
Show on map Mauley Cross stands on the Brown Howe Road, which is now within Cropton forest.
It is said to mark the boundary of the lands of the de Mauley family of Mulgrave Castle.
Show on map Hart Leap stones are supposed to mark the impressive ‘death leap’ of a deer/stag in a hunt.
The stones are 42 feet apart.
Show on map This stone high on the moor carries the carving “Rokan Ston”
One explanation i’ve seen is that Roke means fog and it was a guide, but how you would be able to see this in fog is beyond me.
Show on map An interesting stone with inscriptions on all four faces, it is said to be medieval cross reused as a guidestone.
Whitby Road
Kirby Road (presumable Kirkby Moorside)
Peathill Road (to the south-west)
Glasdale Road (Glaisdale)
Thomas Harwood
D:1735.
Show on map Grey Mare Stone is a natural boulder that has been used as a boundary marker for many centuries. Although I didn’t spot any particular resemblance in shape to a horse.
There are a whole series of dates carved into the rock, 1745, 1774, 1735 RC / RG, 1713, 1799, 1821, 1844 and a much more recent 1979.
There’s also an “Egton” with a backward N
Many of the dates recorded at the same as Swarth Howe Cross which must mark periods of “beating the bounds“
Show on map Immediately adjacent to the previous post, this one is a little more eroded.
A Whitby Road side again.
And it looks like another Peckrin (Pickering)
“TH” has also inscribed this one with what looks like a number 73
Ironopolis suggests this is Thomas Harewood of Glaisdale, who inscribed many stones in the area. Some of these are dated in the 1730s, so I suspect this originally carried a date from that decade and the last number has worn away (possibly 1733 if you squint)