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Moor Divock carved stone
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022
Moor Divock carved stone submitted by nicoladidsbury on 16th Feb 2005. Possible carved stone on Moor Divock close to Moor Divock 4 ring cairn
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Log Text: Having got the portal details of this I had a good look in a couple of places where I found two cairn/shooting butt structures in a sort of wall. The best I found was a stone with several holes in it, which I didn't think were anything other than natural or perhaps quarrying marks. But I probably didn't find the listed stone.
Moor Divock 3
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 4 submitted by postman on 25th Oct 2012. Sometimes a friend at work will ask why I do this , but the question isn't why I do, it's why don't you ? (though really I know the answer)
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Log Text: From MD4 I head back to the main trackway, where my attention is drawn to a couple of large stones laying just off the trackway to the right. I wonder if this was once a cairn with a few kerbstones. I look at the portal again, and see a cup marked stone somewhere around here, and wonder if it is that? No, its not that, which is marked further to the north. Thinking back now home, three weeks later and having got the old plan in front of me, I wonder if this is the remains of MD3. Unlike me, I did not take or keep any pictures of this, probably convinced that there was nothing of any ancient importance at this place! Doh!
Moor Divock 4
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Moor Divock 4 submitted by h_fenton on 7th Oct 2010. An oblique Kite Aerial Photograph of 'Moor Divock 4' ring cairn, viewed from roughly south.
11 September 2010
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Log Text: From the MD2 stones, there is a path out to the clearly seen standing stones of Moor Divock 4, marked as Cairn Circle on the OS map. This consists of a round cairn of stones, surmounted by a ring of about 10 large stones standing proudly on top. It’s a lovely little thing, and from it can be quite clearly seen several other cairns on this moorland plateau. I sit here for a while just looking at the world around me and start to wonder. If this is Moor Divock 4, the previous stones were MD2, then what happened to MD3? I have good phone signal up here and so fire up the megalithic portal, only to find that MD3 is shown as beyond MD5. The pictures for it are mostly of MD4, so that can't be right.
Askham Fell Cairn Stone Row
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Askham Fell Cairn Stone Row submitted by SandyG on 7th Jan 2018. The two western stones and nearby kerbed cairn. View from south (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: I notice online that a little avenue is declared to the south of MD4, so I have a good look around. I see perhaps a couple of stones, and maybe a set of 4 in a square arrangement, but nothing which shouts out to me that here is a stone row.
Moor Divock 2
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 2 submitted by Anne T on 16th May 2022. A view of the stones looking almost due west. The handle of my walking pole is pointing due north.
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Log Text: From the Cop Stone, I head off along the trackway until I see the stones of the little cairn circle Moor Divock 4 off in the distance, so then head off along a smaller path towards that. There are a couple of large stones standing proud of the ground which I go to look at, and it seems they are clearly stood up and standing in their positions with a few smaller stones also. Clearly not natural. I later find this to be Moor Divock 2.
Cop Stone
Date Added: 21st Nov 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cop Stone submitted by nicoladidsbury on 16th Feb 2005. Cop Stone, Moor Divock, Near Askham
OS NY 4959 2160
We approached Moor Divock on bike, setting off from Askham, via Whale, Helton and Heltonhead, so I was a little bit tired....
The bridleway over the moor was smooth, level and firm, excellent for bike riding. We spotted the Cop Stone off to the right and, abandoning the bikes, we walked over springy turf and heather to investigate. The stone is aproximately 1.20m, and leaning to the north. Moor Divock is an exciting place, to the north t...
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Log Text: It’s a simple drive from Mayburgh up through Askham, then on to Helton and up onto the moorland plateau, with plenty of parking beside the road near to the Cop Stone. Boots on, map in pocket, water, sandwiches, camera and raincoat in bag, tracker set, then its off for my exploration of the Moor Divock sites. It's quite busy up here, with a constant stream of people walking and cycling past. First off is the Cop Stone, which is for some reason much smaller than I was expecting. Erosion has made a large depression around the stone, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was to fall over in the not too distant future. Despite thinking I had read that the ring cairn of which the Cop Stone is a part was now largely destroyed, it seemed to be fairly obvious to my eyes, so I took a walk around its circumference, and found plenty more stones sticking up above the heather, particularly in the western arc. I have to say, the Cop Stone does look good perched up here in this splendid place.
King Arthur's Round Table
Date Added: 20th Oct 2022
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
King Arthur's Round Table submitted by h_fenton on 1st Oct 2010. King Arthur's Round Table.
I tried to fly the kite here but the wind was too inconsistent to safely get the camera high enough. Here instead of a kite I used a carp fishing pole, with a camera attachment on the end to lift my camera higher (6-7 metres).
10 September 2010
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Log Text: From Mayburgh I walk to King Arthur's Round Table, and then pop into its field for a walk around the outside. Much smaller, and more henge like than the nearby Mayburgh, this has the ditch well inside the outer bank. Unfortunately, being so close to the busy roads, it suffers a fair bit in the ambience stakes.
Mayburgh
Date Added: 19th Oct 2022
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mayburgh submitted by TerryStaniforth on 10th Jan 2007. Panorama at Mayburgh Henge in frost.
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Log Text: After a fabulous breakfast its time to start my day. Once I have found my way out of Penrith, cross the river and turn right at Eaumont Bridge, right by King Arthur's Round Table henge. Right again before the motorway near a large millennium stone, and theres a parking area. Short walk to Mayburgh Henge, and what a fabulous place it is. Far bigger than I had imagined, the effort it must have taken to create this out of millions of river boulders and pebbles is astounding. I walk all around the henge taking a lot of pictures, none of which do it justice. The large stone standing in the middle really makes the place, along with all the old tree roots growing amongst the boulders. Terrific.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.