Haltwhistle

Stone Circles: `The Mare and Foal' refers to the two standing stones which remain of a stone circle roughly 3,500 years old visible from the Military Road, to the North. The original circle is thought to have been 5m in diameter. While only two stones now survive, a third was shown in the Armstrong map of 1769. The newly discovered stone circle at Gibb's Hill just north of Hadrian's Wall, and the stone circle to the North East of the Caw Burn but South of Greenlee Lough, indicate a spread of Bronze Age occupation - an area of archaeological research still to be explored.