No, it's more than an Iron Age homestead reconstruction. There's a pretend ring cairn there, with a 'four poster' arrangement, as well as a mesolithic pretend hunting camp, I think. I've only looked over the gate in the winter time. I've never been inside since it was finished.
Half a mile down the road is a small forest, with paths, that you don't need to pay to get into - there's a roundabout trail runs from behind the chapel to behind the hotel. In the Rupert's Wood is a picturesque tipi that seems to have been set up to test the 'roundhouse smokehole theories'. It looks like a good place to camp !
This, of course, is just a cheap plug for rural Northumberland ! There are a lot of Roman remains in this vicinity too ! And if you come across the owner, during the summer, he's got some good stories - of the 'Churchill sat over here' type.
He has a pair of ballista as gable ornaments !
David
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