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| Grey Croft stone circle, Seascale | ||
| Grey Croft Stone Circle | ||
| site name:- | Seascale How Farm | |
| locality:- | Grey Croft | |
| civil parish:- | Seascale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle | |
| coordinates:- | NY03330237 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0302 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY00 | |
| altitude:- | 82 feet | |
| altitude:- | 25m | |
| SummaryText:- | modern maps say 'restored' | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 78 9) placename:- Druidical Temple |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Druidical Temple (Site of)" |
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| hearsay:- |
Flattened ring, Thom type D, diameters 27.2m and 24.4m, and outlier; reconstructed
after destruction 1820. 10 stones left out of 12. |
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| The tenant farmer, James Fox, buried all the stones, 1820, without the permission
of his landlord. The circle was reconstructed, using the packing stones which had
been left underground for locations, weathering for positioning, 1949. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Thom, A: 1967: Megalithic Sites in Britain: Oxford University Press (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Fletcher, W: 1957:: TWCAAS: vol.57: pp.1- Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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