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Sheep Scar Circle, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Cairn Circle: OS Grid Reference – SD 80519 66474 Getting Here From Settle, take the same direction as if you’re visiting the giant Apronful of Stones cairn. Walk past it, keeping to the walling for 350 yards (319m) until you … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, cairn circles, cairns, Craven, death, earth mysteries, Giggleswick, Iron Age, megalithic, Megaliths, North Yorkshire, prehistoric sites, Ribblesdale, ring cairns, sacred sites, Settle, Stackhouse, Stone Circles, tombs
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Sheep Scar Cairn, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
Cairn: OS Grid Reference – SD 80678 66436 Getting Here Follow the same directions as if you’re visiting the Apronful of Stones giant cairn, above Giggleswick. Walk past the giant cairn for a coupla hundred yards until you reach the … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, cairn circles, cairns, Craven, death, earth mysteries, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, place-names, prehistoric sites, Ribblesdale, sacred sites, Settle, Stackhouse, Stainforth, tombs, tumuli, tumulus
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Kirkmoor Beck Farm, Fylingthorpe, North Yorkshire
Stone Circle: OS Grid Reference – NZ 924 030 Also Known as: Kirk Moor Beck Farm Kirkmoorbeck Farm Archaeology & History Although originally classed as a stone circle, this site should more accurately be described as a form of cairn … Continue reading
Feizor Thwaite, Lawkland, North Yorkshire
Cairn Circle: OS Grid Reference – SD 79798 67473 Getting Here From Feizor village, take the dirt-track south that cuts up between the two cottages and walk onto the level. From here, the walling bends round and a small cut … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Austwick, Bronze Age, cairn circles, cairns, Clapham, death, earth mysteries, enclosures, Feizor, Lawkland, megalithic, Megaliths, North Yorkshire, prehistoric sites, Ribble, ring cairns, sacred sites, Settle, Stainforth
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Delf Hill, Extwistle, Burnley, Lancashire
Cairn Circle: OS Grid Reference – SD 9006 3373 Also Known as: Delph Hill Pasture Archaeology & History Described in Walter Bennett’s (1946) magnum opus as a “stone circle” and repeated in Aubrey Burl’s (2000) magnum opus under the same … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Lancashire
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, Burnley, cairn circles, death, earth mysteries, Extwistle, heritage, Lancashire, Megaliths, neolithic, paganism, Pennines, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Stone Circles, Thursden, tombs, tumuli, tumulus, Worsthorne
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Baildon Moor Cairn Circle, West Yorkshire
Cairn Circle: OS Grid Reference – SE 132 401 Getting Here Easy to find if you go at the right time of year — very troublesome to find if you go at the wrong time! Check the place out at … Continue reading
