2014
NZ0581 : View from cave below Piper's Chair
taken 10 years ago, near to Barnhill, Northumberland, England

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" Ordnance Survey Map Northumberland Sheet LXX (1866) at National Library of Scotland Link
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