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Old Wife's Stone - OW1 (NZ 71036 05926) |
Danby Rigg is a large promontory hill on the northern edge
of the North York Moors, 12 miles to the west of Whitby.
The first edition OS map (1857) marks two stones on the east side of the hill as the "Old Wife's Stones". Today, a single large boulder remains on the site, while the fate of the second stone is unclear. Identifying the position of the missing stone is not helped by the 1892 edition map which marks the two stones in a slightly different position to the earlier map. Overlaying the maps on the modern aerial view also shows the mapping to be out by several metres - placing the stones a little to the south of the surviving Old Wife's stone (OW1). Re-aligning both maps on this stone provided two possible positions for the 'lost' second stone.