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Robin Hood's Stone, in Allerton, Liverpool is a single standing stone, that once stood in a nearby field where Tudor Liverpudlians practised their archery.
Henry VIII had made it law that all men under sixty practise archery, and so fields were set aside with mounds to support targets, and where the archers stood to fire their arrows would also be placed a stone to allow the sharpening of arrows. The Robin Hood Stone is one of these stones, which has deep groves cut into its surface where the arrows were sharpened, though these may have begun with natural abrasions to the stone. It is likely that the stone had had an earlier human use, possibly as part of tumulus burial chamber, and has been moved from the location of the Calder Stones several times. The grooves on the stone do not go below the surface, where hollow cup marks were found on the stone. The Robin Hood link is uncertain, other than the link with archery. This is the Archers' stone of Archerfield Road. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Robin-Hood's_Stone_-_Liverpool
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