@rjb71 This pile of stones is know as "Two Lads". The story goes that “two lads” where stuck on the moor and froze to death on the site currently marked by the cairn. There are three different versions when this was supposed to have happened.
The earliest tale relates that two princes of a Saxon king dies on the moor, which would, based on other local legendary dates be around 680 CE.
The next tale states the lost lads where the sons of Bishop Pilkington so maybe around 1540 CE.
The story that was often told in Bolton, Lancashire, was that the two lads where children working in a mill over the Belmont side of the hill that were forced to walk back from work each day over the moors.
The earliest tale relates that two princes of a Saxon king dies on the moor, which would, based on other local legendary dates be around 680 CE.
The next tale states the lost lads where the sons of Bishop Pilkington so maybe around 1540 CE.
The story that was often told in Bolton, Lancashire, was that the two lads where children working in a mill over the Belmont side of the hill that were forced to walk back from work each day over the moors.