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Old 06-04-2014, 07:22 AM
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Default Old stone in hadston.

i meant to show you this earlier, my father dug this up in the garden while re laying a lawn about 10 years ago, it is at lake view where the wooden bungalows are, the whole site was stripped prior to building works and then top soil brought in later, the stone was in the sub soil and had to dig fairly deep to get it out.
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Old 06-04-2014, 07:23 AM
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It is about 2.5ft tall pyramid shape
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Old 06-04-2014, 09:37 AM
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My goodness...that's old. Are they carvings up the stem of it? Could almost be the start of a Celtic cross upright?
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Old 06-04-2014, 10:12 AM
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i dont know, they look like rope marks, but above is some faint curly lines, this was found right in the centre of hadston
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Old 13-04-2014, 11:44 PM
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I wonder how Hadston got its name? Perhaps you've uncovered the original "Hade Stone" or something!
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Old 14-04-2014, 12:03 AM
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HADESTON on the 1296 & 1312 Subsidy roll (also Haddiston)

What does hade mean? it has a modern geological meaning which will not be relevant.
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Old 14-04-2014, 08:33 AM
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The standard book on the origin of English place-names is "The Concise Book of English Place-names" by Eilert Eckwall first published in 1936.
He says:
"Hadstone, Northumberland, (Hadeston 1189, Hadistona 1236, Haddeston 1251.)"
He says it means "Haedi's tun". The original meaning of "Tun" was "enclosure". It gradually became to mean "homestead" or "farm" so the meaning of Hadstone is "the homestead belonging to someone called Haeddi."
Hope this explanation is not too long or boring. I'm fascinated by the meanings of place-names and surnames, and can be very boring on the subject.
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Old 14-04-2014, 04:18 PM
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Thanks Digvul, I was barking up the wrong tree, though it might derive from a 'stone' of some sort.
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Old 19-04-2014, 10:57 AM
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Ithink it may have been a boundary marker and maybe been used as a tethering point going off the rop marks?
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