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Conichan East, Glen Almond, Perthshire
Settlement: OS Grid Reference – NN 84645 32074 — NEW FIND Getting Here Park up and walk the long estate track up Glen Almond for nearly three miles until, on your left, you’ll see a small pond. From here, walk … Continue reading
Toad Stones, Baildon Moor, West Yorkshire
Ring Cairn: OS Grid Reference – SE 1305 4004 Getting Here From the double-ring that is the Brackenhall Circle at Shipley Glen, go up the road towards the hills and seek out the cup-marked Glovershaw Quarry Stone. Shortly before this, … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Stone Circles, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Airedale, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Baildon Moor, Bradford, cairns, death, earth mysteries, enclosure, England, english heritage, megalithic, Megaliths, prehistoric sites, ring cairns, settlement, Shipley Glen, stone circle, Stone Circles, West Yorkshire
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Foster Clough Delph, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 0234 2708 Getting Here From Midgley go west along Height Road and take the track up on your right, at the tree-lined bend, up Foster Clough and onto the moor as if you’re gonna … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Calderdale, earth mysteries, enclosure, enclosures, Hebden Bridge, heritage, Iron Age, Midgley Moor, Mytholmroyd, neolithic, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, settlement, settlements, West Yorkshire
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Round Dikes, Addingham, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 0552 5013 Also Known as: Round Dykes The Camp Getting Here First highlighted on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map of western Addingham, this large oval embankment sits on the eastern side of Counter Hill, … Continue reading
Posted in Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Addingham, antiquarian, antiquities, archaeological, Archaeology, Bronze Age, cairns, dykes, earth mysteries, Earthworks, enclosure, Ilkley, Iron Age, prehistoric sites, Romans, sacred sites, settlement, settlements, Silsden, tombs, tumuli, tumulus, Wharfedale
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Marchup, Addingham, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 0478 4987 Getting Here Take the A6034 road between Addingham and Silsden and, at the very top of the hill between the two towns, at Cringles, take the small road of Cringles Lane north … Continue reading
The Carrs, Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 0555 2993 Also Known as: Rough Carrs Getting Here Troublesome to get to if you don’t know the area. You can get here rom Halifax, up through Highroad Well towards Wainstalls, keeping to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Calderdale, ditches, dykes, earth mysteries, Earthworks, enclosure, England, english heritage, Halifax, heritage, Iron Age, Ogden, Ovenden, prehistoric sites, Romano-British, Romans, settlement, Wainstalls, West Yorkshire
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Counter Hill, Addingham, West Yorkshire
Earthworks: OS Grid Reference – SE 051 501 Getting Here You can come from various angles to approach this site, but I reckon the best is from along the old trackway of Parson’s Lane, between Addingham and Marchup. From Silsden … Continue reading
Posted in Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Addingham, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, dykes, earth mysteries, Earthworks, enclosure, heritage, holy well, Ilkley, Iron Age, prehistoric sites, Romano-British, Romans, sacred sites, settlement, Silsden, tumuli, West Yorkshire, Wharfedale
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Castlestead Ring, Cullingworth, West Yorkshire
Earthworks: OS Grid References – SE 0514 3627 Also Known as: Blood Dykes Getting Here Dead easy this one! On the Keighley-Halifax A629 road, about 500 yards south past Flappit Spring (public house), there’s a small road to your right. … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Earthworks, Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bradford, Bronze Age, Cullingworth, earth mysteries, Earthworks, enclosures, english heritage, folklore, Harden, Henges, Iron Age, Keighley, Oxenhope, prehistoric sites, Roman, Romano-British, settlement, West Yorkshire
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Holed Stone, West Overton, Wiltshire
Enclosure & Stone: OS Grid Reference – SU 1285 7151 Getting Here Follow the same directions to reach the Polisher Stone at the top-end of Overton Down as it meets Fyfield Down. From here, walk down the slope for 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Settlement/Enclosures, Standing Stones, Wiltshire
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Avebury, Bronze Age, enclosures, english heritage, folk-lore, folklore, Fyfield Down, holed stones, Iron Age, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, neolithic, prehistoric sites, Ridgeway, settlement, Standing Stones, walling, Wessex, West Overton, Wiltshire
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