as we wanted to drive back through Coverdale, (her maiden name - and probably the family origin) Coverdale is a tributary valley on the south side of Wensleydale including Coverham, West Scrafton, and Horsehouse.
At the headof the dale there is a single track road leading over the moors between Great Whernside and Buckden Pike down Park Rash and on to Kettlewell in the heart of Wharfedale ... our way home. Hopefully it wasn't too traumatic trip following us on the narrow roads in the Dales. At least Aussies drive on the same side of the road as we do ... though there was no "other side" on many of the small lanes we were on! Still - we made it! Got back in time toi go for a walk up onto the moor via Heber's Ghyll.
On Ilkley Moor we walked on to the swastika stone has a double outline of a swastika with ten cups fitting within the five curved arms. The design is similar to art of the Celtic Iron Age period but could have been
carved as early as the Bronze Age, as with other markings in the vicinity. 2,300 BC to 1300 BC, (nowhere as old the Aborigines of Australia - arrived 40,000 to 60,000 years ago!). Back to the carving - there is a Victorian imitation, situated in front of the original, - some think that the symbol relates to the sun.
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