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| Rawthey Bridge stone circle, Ravenstonedale | ||
| Rawthey Bridge Stone Circle | ||
| locality:- | Rawthey | |
| civil parish:- | Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| civil parish:- | Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle (gone) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7197 (??) | |
| 10Km square:- | SD79 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 162:- "..." "... In the high street leading from Kirkby Stephen to Sedbergh near Rawthey bridge is a circle of large stones supposed a druidical monument. ..." |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Nicolson, J &Burn, R: 1777: History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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