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| Iron Hill South stone circle, Crosby Ravensworth | ||
| Iron Hill South Stone Circle | ||
| locality:- | Iron Hill (?) | |
| civil parish:- | Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle (?) | |
| locality type:- | cairn circle | |
| coordinates:- | NY59651475 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5914 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY51 | |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 15) placename:- Druidical Circle |
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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. |
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| hearsay:- |
9 stones around a low mound. |
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| Thom type ellipse, diameters 7.1m x 6.2m. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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| notes:- |
This is a cairn circle, ie kerb stones of a cairn; the sandstone boulder has cup marks. |
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| Becckensall, Stan: 2002: Prehistoric Rock Art in Cumbria: Tempus Publishing (Stroud,
Gloucestershire) |
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