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| Studfold Gate stone circle, Dean | ||
| Studfold Gate Stone Circle | ||
| locality:- | Dean Moor | |
| civil parish:- | Dean (formerly Cumberland) | |
| civil parish:- | Distington (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle | |
| locality type:- | boundary feature | |
| locality type:- | parish boundary feature | |
| coordinates:- | NY04002234 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0422 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY02 | |
| altitude:- | 623 feet | |
| altitude:- | 190m | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 62 9) |
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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. "Stone Circle" |
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| hearsay:- |
Perhaps 15 stones in a ring 25.9m x 32.8m, local sandstone; described as standing
stones by the OS. |
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| Bisected by a stone wall, which is also a parish boundary. |
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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) Mason, J R &Valentine, H: 1925:: TWCAAS: vol.25: pp.268- Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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