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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: YockenthwaiteCountry: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Settle / Grassington Nearest Village: Yockenthwaite
Map Ref: SD8995779376 Landranger Map Number: 98
Latitude: 54.210022N Longitude: 2.155483W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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drolaf visited on 10th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 a lovely little kerb cairn/ring. a delightful walk along the Upper Wharfe, with its water-carved limestone. About 70 metres upstream from the ring is Yockenthwaite 'cave' a small fissure, from which some water issues, and also the eerie sound of an underground waterfall deep in the hillside. I wonder if this was there in the Bronze Age and had something to do with the siting of this ring. and what did they think the sound was? The river here is a disappearing/appearing one, as it discharges into several holes into underground aquifers, leaving downstream a dry bed, until a new water source enters it.
kthdsn visited on 15th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 We parked beside the river but didn't cross.
BolshieBoris visited on 1st Jan 1987 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Not a long walk, but you need to cross the river to get to it.
rldixon have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 3.67
The circle looking east across the slopes of Yockenthwaite Moor. The stones have been described as a 'stone circle' but I think the most recent consensus is a 'ring cairn', the stones themselves being the 'kerbstones' that are all that's left? It's in a lovely spot by the river and the Dales Way long-distance footpath, in the bottom of the Wharfe Valley. It's easily reached via a rough track from the bridge at Yockenthwaite.
This ring cairn/stone circle is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1008772 and recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 45805. The Journal of Antiquities also features a page for this site - see their entry for Yockenthwaite Stone Circle, North Yorkshire, which includes a photograph and background information. The JoA adds: "The name Yockenthwaite is said to be of Scandinavian origins. Thwaite meaning ‘a clearing’, while Yocken could be a derivation of ‘Eogan’ of probable Irish origins – hence we get the place-name ‘Eogan’s clearing’. Thwaite is quite a common place-name is the Yorkshire Dales and also in north-eastern England giving us some idea where Norse invaders came to settle in the 9th-11th centuries", and lists sources of further information.
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