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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Cockpit Alternative Name: Moor Divock 13; Moordivock 13; Askham Fell 13
Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Penrith Nearest Village: Askham / Helton
Map Ref: NY48282224 Landranger Map Number: 90
Latitude: 54.592686N Longitude: 2.801934W
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

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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
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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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Couplands visited on 27th May 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2

TheCaptain visited on 20th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 I have been meaning to visit The Cockpit for many many years, and I managed to do so in September 2022. From White Raise I head off towards the Cockpit, down to the major crossing of tracks, and then taking the way to the west, on what is now a largely rebuilt and upraised stone trackway across the boggy moorland. This has made what was probably difficult going into a very easy and pleasant walk. Just after a little ford over a stream, and there it is, looking all green inside and splendid. Its a large circular area of flat ground surrounded by a stone lined embankment, with a good set of quite large stones around the inner edge, another not so complete ring around the outside. There are a few little round cairn like structures spaced around its circumference, the largest being at the eastern side. Time for lunch, then I'd better head back. Having looked at the rough and marshy ground to the south, I decide to go back the way I came, and not to make up a loop walk across the open moorland to look for a few other cairns and "piles of stones" marked on the OS map.

stonesy visited on 16th Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 3

drolaf visited on 2nd Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3

JulieRowland visited on 20th Apr 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Parked and walked on obvious track

Anne T visited on 28th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Almost at the course of High Street Roman Road, there is a view of Ullswater from the footpath just below the Cock Pit Stone Circle. As the circle is on a good footpath, most of the people stopped at the circle. It's always nice to see people appreciate ancient sites, but I had to wait quite a while to get take photographs without anyone else in it! We found a couple of the outlying stones, and identified a couple of cairns nearby, but couldn't get good enough photographs to make these out properly. By standing just below the circle, on the main footpath, it's possible to make out the bank. Well worth a visit, and the view of Ullswater and Pooley Bridge below was worth the easy walk.

WindC visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 1 Access: 2

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.14 Ambience: 3.67 Access: 2.86

The Cockpit Stone Circle ‘includes a circular kerbed stone bank 2.8m -11.2m wide and up to 0.5m high which encloses an area approximately 27m in diameter. There are 27 (?) standing and recumbent stones set largely into the internal face of this bank, thereby creating the stone circle. The tallest standing stone measures about 0.95m high and some of the recumbent stones are up to 1.9m in length. Within the eastern side of the stone circle, abutting the internal edge of the stone bank, is a 5m square foundation of stones.

This is interpreted as an original element of the stone circle, although its exact function is as yet unknown.

Beyond the southern and western perimeter of the stone circle there is an arc of five outlying stones each up to 1.5m high, four of which are standing. To the north of the stone circle there is an arc of four small clearance cairns - three of which are slightly oval-shaped and one circular. To the north of these are a further three clearance cairns’

For more information see Pastscape Monument No. 11156.

The Cockpit is recorded by Historic England as The Cockpit stone circle and seven adjacent clearance cairns, Moor Divock. The locations of these cairns are recorded by Quartermaine in his 1991 "Askham Fell Survey Catalogue" as:
Just north of the stone circle:
Cairn 87: NY 48286 22276;
Cairn 88: NY 48276 22284;
Cairn 89: NY 48269 22289;
Cairn 90: NY 48247 22285;
This group of three cairns is slightly to the north of the group of four cairns listed above:
Cairn 91: NY 48265 22324;
Cairn 92: NY 48279 22329; and
Cairn 93: NY 48297 22321.

Also see Waistell Taylor's 1885 paper "Prehistoric Remains on Moordivock", pages 337 to 338, which adds: "The remains are situated on a natural flattened ridge, and consist of a circular arrangement of boulder stones inclosing a flat area. It cannot be said to be perfectly circular, being slightly oval in circumference, the diameter N and S being 90 feet and E and W 103 feet. A few of the stones are now doubtless dislocated from their regular bearings, some having fallen inwards and others outwards, but the observer can readily discern that there has been a carefully constructed peristylith of two rings of stones, an inner and an outer. Within the circumference there are the ruins of four segmental cairns or barrows. The ost prominent of these is situated within the boundary on the E side, where an earthern mound has been raised above the level of the plateau, and a circular cairn has been set upon it .... about 250 yards to the S of the Cockpit there are the remains of a group of three or four tumuli, standing about 100 yards apart".

Waistell Taylor concludes: "Here then we have exemplied one of the Cumbria great 100 foot circles, shewing the distinctive peculiarity of segmental cairns, and indeed composing a monument of considerable magnitude and importance in an archaeological sense. Hitherto the knowledge of this relic has been confined chiefly to the dalesmen of the neighbourhood; concealed in its remote position, it has been out of the sight of and neglected by visitors, save by the ordnance people and a very few antiquarians".
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