NZ0581 : View from cave below Piper's Chair
taken 8 years ago, near to Barnhill, Northumberland, Great Britain

View from cave below Piper's Chair
James Radcliffe, the 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, and his brother, Charles, are said to have escaped capture by government messengers by hiding in the caves of Shaftoe Crags in September 1715, on the eve of the Northumbrian Jacobite rising in the Fifteen.
Shaftoe Crags
Link to 6" Ornance Survey Map Northumberland Sheet LXX (1866) at National Library of Scotland Link
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- NZ0581, 45 images (more nearby
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- Photographer
- Andrew Curtis (find more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Friday, 31 October, 2014 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Friday, 31 October, 2014
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- Primary Subject of Photo
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
NZ 0515 8165 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:7.7519N 1:55.2464W - Camera Location
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OSGB36:
NZ 05157 81654
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- SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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