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The Devil's Arrows

Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire

Three giant stone pillars said to have been hurled by the Devil.

Three huge pillars of millstone grit stand in a line beside the River Ure, the tallest almost seven metres high. Their surfaces are deeply grooved by rain.

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When
Late Neolithic
Where
54.0920, -1.4030
Group
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Visiting

Free. Next to the road on the edge of Boroughbridge.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

Beside the River Ure at Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire stand three great pillars of rock. They are called the Devil’s Arrows.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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