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{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}~{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}|&#39;|'}}|width=34%}}<div class="pnMapLegend">The original site of Robin Hood's Stone.</div>
{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}~{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}|&#39;|'}}|width=34%}}<div class="pnMapLegend">The original site of Robin Hood's Stone.</div>
[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|Greenhill Road just after crossing Booker Avenue. Robin Hood's Stone stood here until 1924/25 if not later but had moved to its present location by 1937 / Google Earth Street View.]]
[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|Greenhill Road just after crossing Booker Avenue. Robin Hood's Stone stood somewhere around here until August 1928, when it was moved to its present location / Google Earth Street View.]]
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Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1924/25 and perhaps as late as 1936 its home was a rather large plot of land on the corner of Greenwood and Greenhill Roads, less than a hundred meters north-east of its present location.  
Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1928 its home was a plot of land on the corner of modern Greenwood and Greenhill Roads, less than a hundred meters north-east of its present location.


According to a local blogger, this red sandstone monolith is ''c.'' 2.4 metres high and about 90 cm in width. He further notes that
Before becoming detached, the stone belonged to the Calderstones complex, a group of neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calderstones_Park#The_Calderstones Wikipedia: Calderstones Park.] 'Bronze Age' in [https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=67205 PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone] is presumably a mistake.</ref> With development encroaching on its habitat &ndash; a field locally known as the Stone Hey, where it stood already by the mid-19th century &ndash; the stone was moved to the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road in August of 1928. At or near its base the stone has cup marks similar to those on the otehr Calderstones.<ref>[https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=67205 PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone;] and see 1850 map in list below.</ref>{{PnItemQry}}
<div class="plainquote">It was apparently dug-up in 1928 in a field in the Forty Pits area – where it then stood for some considerable time until a new housing estate was built, and, then it was moved (once gain) to its present position on Brooker Avenue, just opposite Archerfield Road, at the beginning of the 1970s.<ref>[https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside] by 'sunbright57'.</ref></div>
The stone does now sit on the corner of Booker &ndash; not Brooker &ndash; Avenue and Archerfield Road, but there is nothing remotely 1978-ish about the railing around it, and in fact a 25" O.S. map published in 1939 and based on a survey carried out in 1937 already has the stone at its present address (see maps below). On the other hand, a 6" O.S. map published ''c.'' 1936 and based on a revision of an older map completed in 1925 still has it on the corner of Greenwood and Greenhill Roads. The stone, therefore, must have been moved a some point between 1925 and 1937. It is labelled (and usually also indicated) at its old location on O.S. maps of the area from 1850 to ''c.'' 1936, It therefore almost certainly was not moved during this period and can hardly have been "dug-up in 1928". Had the stone disappeared from view, through either being covered in earth or moved elsewhere, the maps would typically have labelled the spot "Site of Robin Hood's Stone", but this is never the case.
 
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== Gazetteers ==
== Gazetteers ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 315-19.
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 315-19.
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== Sources ==
* [https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=67205 PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone.]
 
== Maps ==
== Maps ==
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126523997#zoom=4&lat=4735&lon=10155&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1893; surveyed 1890)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126523997#zoom=4&lat=4735&lon=10155&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1893; surveyed 1890)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.3718&lon=-2.9039&layers=168&b=5 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1908; rev. 1905)] (georeferenced)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.3718&lon=-2.9039&layers=168&b=5 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1908; rev. 1905)] (georeferenced)
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126524003#zoom=5&lat=4954&lon=10389&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1927; rev. 1924-25)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126524003#zoom=5&lat=4954&lon=10389&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1927; rev. 1924-25)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126524006#zoom=4&lat=4426&lon=9892&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1939; rev. 1937).]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126524006#zoom=4&lat=4426&lon=9892&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1939; rev. 1937).]
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== Discussion ==
== Discussion ==
* [https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside] by 'sunbright57'.
* [https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside] by 'sunbright57'.  
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calderstones_Park#The_Calderstones Wikipedia: Calderstones Park.]
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== Notes ==
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Revision as of 21:02, 11 February 2019

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The original site of Robin Hood's Stone.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Greenhill Road just after crossing Booker Avenue. Robin Hood's Stone stood somewhere around here until August 1928, when it was moved to its present location / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-11. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-11.

Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1928 its home was a plot of land on the corner of modern Greenwood and Greenhill Roads, less than a hundred meters north-east of its present location.

Before becoming detached, the stone belonged to the Calderstones complex, a group of neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.[1] With development encroaching on its habitat – a field locally known as the Stone Hey, where it stood already by the mid-19th century – the stone was moved to the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road in August of 1928. At or near its base the stone has cup marks similar to those on the otehr Calderstones.[2]Template:PnItemQry

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Notes

  1. ↑ Wikipedia: Calderstones Park. 'Bronze Age' in PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone is presumably a mistake.
  2. ↑ PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone; and see 1850 map in list below.


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