References

A number of books, published articles and scientific papers have been referenced in one way or another on this website and are listed below.

Bruthans, J., Soukup, J., Vaculikova, J., Filippi, M., Schweigstillova, J., Mayo, A. L., Masin, D., Kletetschka, G. and Rihosek, J. (2014) Sandstone landforms shaped by negative feedback between stress and erosion. Nature Geoscience 7, 597–601.

Grainge, W. (1863) Nidderdale; or an Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Sketch of the valley of the Nidd.

Hargrove, E. (1789) The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough with Harrogate and its Medicinal WatersHargrove, E. (1789) The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough with Harrogate and its Medicinal Waters.

Lancaster, P.J., Daly, S.J., Storey, C.D. and Morton, A.C. (2016) Interrogating the provenance of large river systems: multi-proxy in situ analyses in the Millstone Grit, Yorkshire. The Geological Society, London.

Ogle, H.W. (1925) Brimham Rocks The Wonder of Nidderdale. 

Palmer, J. A. and Radley, J. (1961) Gritstone tors of the English Pennines. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 5, 37-52.

Pennant, T. (1804) A Tour from Alston Moor to Harrogate and Brimham Crags.

Phillips, J. (1836) Geology of Yorkshire Part II The Mountain Limestone District. pp330.

Rooke, H. (1787) Archaeologia 8, Some Account of the Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire. 209-217.

Schumm, S. A. (1977). The Fluvial System. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp338.

Soltan, R. and Mountney, N.P. (2016) Interpreting complex fluvial channel and barform architecture: Carboniferous Central Pennine Province, northern England. Sedimentology 63, 207–252. 

Reticuloceras aff. coronatum Bisat & Hudson, a Carboniferous goniatite from the Millstone Grit Group. Holotype BGS Da2031, collected at Otley, Yorkshire. Namurian Stage. Photograph: GB3D Type Fossils, British Geological Survey.

Brimham Rocks, Plates XVI & XVII, p. 210 & 215 James Basire after Hayman Rooke, Archaeologia , Vol. VIII, 1787.From the Gott Collection, Wakefield Permanent Art Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield.

Clarke A, Leary J, Kirkland C. 2026 Deliberate prehistoric sourcing of the Devil’s Arrows, Britain’s tallest stone row. Proc. R. Soc. A 482 : 20260504.