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Long Meg
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg submitted by JanF on 22nd Jun 2010. Long Meg (and her daughters) Stone Circle, Cumbria UK, is a magical place.. I watched the sunset on this special day in memory of my loved one.. Many others were here with me.. Complete strangers, but yet close friends..
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Log Text: Before heading east over the Pennines, I have time to go and visit Long Meg. A new car park has been made which is well signposted, which leaves a 500 metre walk to the stone circle. I start my visit with Long Meg itself, as there are a few other people here who go the other way. What a lovely stone, standing proud overlooking the circle with its spirals and of course the face of Long Meg herself.
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Iain_P on 12th Aug 2017. Another. It was the only sun we saw all week!
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Log Text: Now to walk around the circle. It's huge, much bigger than my memory was telling me and with a little double stoned entrance up near Long Meg. The stones are basically large rounded boulders, like giant pebbles from a riverbed, and its not really accurate to consider them as standing stones. Lots of young cows in and around the stones, some of which seem to be playing hide and seek.
Shap Avenue
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022
Shap Avenue submitted by AngieLake on 3rd Jun 2011. These were the most noticeable stones fringing the east side of the road, heading back towards the village after visiting Kemp Howe, that might have possibly come from the ancient monuments.
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Log Text: Driving up to Penrith on the day of the Queen's funeral, the M5 and M6 nicely free of traffic. I turn off at Shap for a look at some of the Shap Avenue stones. After a pint at the Kings Arms I decide I have enough time to have a look for many of the Shap stones.
Kemp Howe
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Kemp Howe submitted by nicoladidsbury on 29th Mar 2004. This is the remains of what must have been a beautiful stone circle. The stones are pink granite and have a lovely glow. Unfortunately the ambience has been shattered by the "wonderful" victorians, who built the railway on top of it.
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Log Text: Driving up to Penrith on the day of the Queen's funeral, the M5 and M6 nicely free of traffic, I turn off at Shap for a look at some of the Shap Avenue stones. A quick look at Kemp Howe stone circle, but the field is closed off with livestock inside, so I satisfy myself with a look over the gate.
The Giant's Foot (Cumbria)
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Giant's Foot (Cumbria) submitted by baz on 21st Mar 2004. The Giant's Foot at NY563148. This stone is a remnant of the Shap Stone Avenue and lies in a field behind the houses on the A6 in Shap.
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Log Text: After a pint at the Kings arms I decide I have enough time to have a look for many of the Shap stones. First off is the Giant's Foot, which is just across a field behind the house at the back of the pub. It’s a large flat stone.
Goggleby Stone
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Goggleby Stone submitted by blingo on 30th Jan 2003. Goggleby stone near Shap.
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Log Text: i drive through Shap and up the lanes to the northwest, finding somewhere to park, then just a little walk to the Goggleby Stone. Slightly disappointed to find it not so large as I had been thinking, and also very crudely concreted into the ground.
Aspers Field
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Aspers Field submitted by baz on 26th Apr 2003. This stone (at NY558152) lies in the next field to the more well known Goggleby Stone (NY559151), from which I took this picture (with zoom). Both of these stones form a part of the Shap Stone Avenue.
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Log Text: In the field between the lane and the Goggleby Stone can be seen a large leaning stone nearby the wall. Can get a good view of this stone from both sides
Keld Lane Stones
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Keld Lane Stones submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Oct 2022. Walking along the little lane, the two stones in the field by the wall here, the larger stone that I could see before, and also a smaller one.
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Log Text: Back to the car, and this stone can be seen in front of the wall on the skyline to the northwest, beyond the first few fields. I decide I can go and get a closer look at it by driving up to the north and then walking down the little lane. There are two stones in the field by the wall here, the larger stone that I could see before, and also a smaller one.
Thunder Stone (Shap)
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Thunder Stone submitted by LivingRocks on 7th Jul 2005. The enormous Thunder Stone, the largest stone of the Shap Avenue.
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Log Text: At the northwest end of the avenue is the large Thunder Stone, a view of which can be had across the field near the farm.
Thunder Stone (Castlehowe Scar)
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Thunder Stone (Castlehowe Scar) submitted by Anne T on 8th Sep 2014. Another face of this Thunder Stone. The red of the Shap Granite can be clearly seen in the strong sunlight.
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Log Text: Head out to the east of Shap, and the first stop is another Thunder Stone, this one an erratic perched just above a small old quarry, looming large on the skyline when approaching from the west.
Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle submitted by baz on 3rd May 2003. Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle (NY587155).
Ten stones form this small stone circle which is now huddled up against a drystone wall, in a field with a locked gate. On the other side of the wall, there appears to be a stone row.
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Log Text: Onwards to Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle, my first new circle of the day. Easy parking beside the small lane running south, and its easy to see the circle just in the next field, but no entrance available today. It’s a small scruffy circle of large boulders, close to the field wall and with a cattle feeder placed inside it.
Castlehowe Scar Stone Row
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Castlehowe Scar Stone Row submitted by MonumentMan on 30th Sep 2019. Castlehowe Scar circle, due east uphill from the Thunder stone.
After looking south over the wall, the stone row was found and extended some 400yards down to the river/beck across the fell?
20 yards to the west of Castlehowe circle lies a smaller circle of 1ft high granite boulders buried in the grass?
Is this stone row contemporary with the circles at Castlehowe??
or have the quarry re-instated this line? It looks interesting but any
thoughts on this complex please
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Log Text: Just to the west of the stone circle is what appears to be another rubble cairn surrounded by low boulders, with what seems to be a row or avenue of stones running south down a little valley across the open land.
Iron Hill North
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Iron Hill North submitted by stu on 21st Jul 2002. 596147 NE Lakes Sheet.
10 stones remain on one side of a wall.
First stone on right is limestone the rest granite, this is found also at the Gamelands circle, Gunnerkeld and Iron Hill south a few metres away.
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Log Text: Continuing on south and I park near the large flooded quarry, from where it’s a short walk uphill to the east to the top of Iron Hill. The northerly circle is a ring of stones surrounding a large round tumulus which is bisected by the field wall which runs right over the top of it. On the southern side, the circle of kerbstones is almost complete, but I could see nothing on the northern side, but couldnt gain access to have a close look.
Iron Hill South
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Iron Hill South submitted by stu on 16th Jul 2004. NY596 148.
The small, slightly odd circle of Iron Hill South.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the hilltop barrow can be seen a small circle of large boulders, with a few more in the centre which may once have formed a cist.
Kalmott cairn circle
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kalmott cairn circle submitted by VapourTrail on 28th Sep 2009. Kalmott cairn on a typically dull Cumbrian day in September.
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Log Text: Continue south to Oddendale, where plenty of parking is available on the open moor. Walking south, and below the trees beside the wall just past the farm entrance is found a small circle of stones with a central cist structure. A lovely little monument, and makes me wonder how many more of these there must have been all over these hills.
Giants Grave, Penrith
Date Added: 14th Oct 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Giants Grave, Penrith submitted by nicoladidsbury on 12th Feb 2005. Giants Grave Viking Crosses and Hogback stones
The 'Giants Grave' is a collection of ancient grave stones comprising two 11' high stone crosses and four hog-back stones. An excavation of the 'Giants Grave' showed a skeleton underneath with a sword. The four hogback stones surrounding the grave are said to represent wild boar he killed in nearby Inglewood Forest.
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Log Text: An evening in Penrith, and despite thinking I knew something like hogback stones were here, I missed seeing the Giant's Grave in the dark with the churchyard gates closed. But I did see the Giant's Thumb carved cross and take a picture of it from the nearby path.
Oddendale
Date Added: 17th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Oddendale submitted by stu on 20th Jul 2002. 592129 NE Lakes Sheet.
Excellent double ringed circle, a must see.
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Log Text: I now walk south along the trackway past the rough limestone pavement before heading out southwesterly across the open land to find the Oddendale circles. Quite hard to see at first, then they come into view, the stones hiding amongst the long grass. Upon closer inspection it is a really fabulous site, a large outer ring of big boulders surrounding a smaller ring with possible remains of a cist at the centre. There are several outlying stones around the large circle, some possibly forming an avenue to the northeast. Its lovely here with huge views all around and nobody else within sight. I spent quite a bit of time up here before heading back to the car and onwards to Penrith.
Trendlebere Down
Date Added: 9th Mar 2023
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Trendlebere Down submitted by AngieLake on 10th Aug 2010. First view of Trendlebere Down stone row on approach from the road. Orientated N-S, the south end is to far right here.
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Log Text: Getting from the road to find this row is a bit of a struggle through gorse and heather, and I initially found it hard to find. But there it is, not quite where I was expecting to find it, but as so often with a path running down beside it, and it has had much of the growth mechanically cleared from it. The large cairn at the top is completely overgrown, as is the top of the row, but I found a few fairly large fallen stones hidden underneath the overgrowth. Further down, the row becomes more cleared, but the stones are smaller, mostly flat on the ground, and many have been substantially damaged by the mechanical machines used to clear the gorse and heather. The bottom end again becomes lost in high vegetation. Amongst the disturbance is a large stone, facing across the rows, which looks as though it may have once been a terminal blocking stone. All in all a disappointment.
Tottiford Reservoir
Date Added: 12th Sep 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Tottiford Reservoir submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Sep 2022. With the drought of 2022 now exposing the stone circle in Tottiford reservoir, I went down for an exploration yesterday. Despite overnight storms making the lakebed very wet, slippery and muddy, I was able to walk to the circle, and around most of it. My footprints make out the circle relatively clearly.
I didn't make notes, and from memory I was able to identify about 10 stones in the mud. Just a quick forst photo uploaded from my phone. In time I will sort out what I have taken.
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Log Text: With the drought of 2022 now exposing the stone circle in Tottiford reservoir for only the second time in 150 years, I went down for an exploration. Despite overnight storms making the lakebed very wet, slippery and muddy, I was able to walk to the circle, and around most of it. Despite getting very wet and muddy feet, and slipping several times, I managed to make it back to dry land without falling flat in the mud!
The northern single, and double southern stone rows were clear, but surrounded by too much wet mud to walk along them for any distance.
I was really pleased with myself for getting to visit this circle, as I never thought I would even see it, let alone be able to have a proper visit.
Tottiford Reservoir circle
Date Added: 12th Sep 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Tottiford Reservoir circle submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Sep 2022. View of the circle seen from the Mound
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Log Text: With the drought of 2022 now exposing the stone circle in Tottiford reservoir for only the second time in 150 years, I went down for an exploration. Despite overnight storms making the lakebed very wet, slippery and muddy, I was able to walk to the circle, and around most of it.
In the southern part of the reservoir, below the footpath causeway bridge and to the northwest of the obvious lage dry mound, can be seen a few stones of a stone circle. I was able to get across the mud to the nearest stone, and once there it seemed that the circle was arranged around the outer edges of another smaller dry mound. I got to walk around most of the circumference of the circle without too much mud, and noted about 8 to 10 stones, which would have made up a decent circle with regularly spaced stones.
Trying to get across to the large dry mound I had no chance, as there was deep wet mud between the two, presumably an old river course separating the two, so I had to go back the way I had come across the mud from the eastern shore of the reservoir.
Despite getting very wet and muddy feet, and slipping several times, I managed to make it back to dry land without falling flat in the mud! I was really pleased with myself for getting to visit this circle, as I never thought I would even see it, let alone be able to have a proper visit.