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Duddo Five Stones

Near Berwick, Northumberland

Five tall stones, carved into strange shapes by 4,000 years of weather.

On a low hill near the Scottish border stand five weathered sandstone pillars. Rain has cut deep grooves down their sides, so they look almost like melted candles.

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When
c. 2000 BC
Where
55.6840, -2.1120
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

On farmland, reached by a signed permissive path.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

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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