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Robin Hood's Bed. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-18. Revised by … Robin Hood's Bed is a "name applied to whole or part of the prominent ridge of Blackstone Edge in the Pennines". Neolithic flints have been found at the site. Dobson, … on this locality, what suggested the name is a rock which "overlooks the very Edge of the ridge, detached from the main section, with a large and very curious … c. 215 cm long. This "bed" has a roughly horseshoe-shaped ridge. Blackstone Edge forms a border between Lancashire and Yorkshire. The earliest reference for … is John Watson's History and Antiquities of Halifax, published in 1775 (see Allusions below). "Robin Hood's Bed" is indicated twice on …