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11th September 202611th September 2026

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Google Earth map of North Yorkshire with a yellow traced outline of the Kinderscoutian sandstone around Brimham Rocks, red markers for the Devil's Arrows, Brimham Rocks and Plumpton Rocks, orange henge markers, and a blue polygon for the glacial lake reaching the Devil's Arrows.

Partisan. Say it up front. I think ice moved the big stones of Britain about and people stood them up, and I thought so before the geology got interesting. So read what follows as a man with a side and a map.

The occasion is a new paper on the Devil’s Arrows, the Millstone Grit monoliths beside the A1 at Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. Put up something like 4,000 years ago (BC 2,000). The paper matches their zircons to Brimham Rocks, a crag 18 km west, and concludes that Bronze Age people picked that crag on purpose and dragged the stones eleven miles to a spot with no gritstone of its own. Deliberate sourcing. The word is in the title.

Google Earth map of North Yorkshire with a yellow traced outline of the Kinderscoutian sandstone around Brimham Rocks, red markers for the Devil's Arrows, Brimham Rocks and Plumpton Rocks, orange henge markers, and a blue polygon for the glacial lake reaching the Devil's Arrows. — Yellow: the Kinderscoutian sandstone the Arrows were matched to, traced from the BGS 1:50k map. Brimham Rocks is inside it, and so is a lot of other ground. Blue: the Devensian glacial lake, the Arrows on its west shore. The lake is rough, from the BGS Lexicon limits; the grit outline is raster-traced from a filtered BGS map image, not BGS vector data, and the filter picks one mapping name, so equivalent rock mapped under other names is left out. Contains British Geological Survey materials (c) UKRI 2026. Spin it round yourself in Google Earth.

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