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Lacra A Stone Circle |
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Lacra D Stone Circle |
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Lacra E Ring Cairn |
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Lacra Stone Avenue Stone Row / Alignment |
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Buzzards, butterflies and bovine bother I visited Lacra on a glorious August Saturday, battling through the holiday traffic to find myself completely alone on a sun-drenched hillside. Although there is a footpath leading straight up from Kirksanton, I took Burl`s advice and parked at Po House, taking the longer but more gentle path around Lacra Bank. On my journey, I heard the characteristic `mewing` of a buzzard and, looking up, saw this magnificent bird perched high above me. On reaching a ruined farmhouse, I could see an area of stones beyond the drystone walls of the fields and knew that I`d arrived. Lacra A was the first of the features up here that I encountered. It was difficult to see which stones belonged and which didn`t. Only two remain standing out of six of those that count. Walking east, Lacra D was the next that I investigated and, here again, I had to study the stones scattered about to try and work out where the circle actually was. I was helped in this by a large slab which lies within the circle, possibly a capstone. From Lacra D, two stone rows are said to run, one to the north-east and the other leading south-west down the hillside. A ring cairn, Lacra E, lies just 8metres to the north-west, but I could only make out three small stones. The many butterflies feeding on the thistles were a welcome distraction to my quest to try and sort out this bronze age landscape. Walking south-west from Lacra D and passing through a gap in a field wall, Lacra B was my next destination. This one is unmistakeable as a stone circle, although only six stones remain of a suggested eleven. Whilst here, I was pleased to hear again the call of the buzzard and, looking up, saw a large bird of prey circling in the sky with a smaller bird, who answered the buzzard`s call with its own. I admired their encounter as they circled away and down towards the lower ground where the Giant`s Grave standing stones stand majestically, far off in the distance, before continuing on my quest. Walking downhill to the east, the remaining stones of Lacra C stone circle came quickly into my view. Just three stones now stand in an arc which would probably have been the largest of the the four stone circles up here. Then the cattle arrived. I usually have no problem with farm animals, but these bovine beasts were very numerous and inquisitive and being mindful of the fact that I was alone upon the hillside, decided that I should play safe and leave. On my return journey, I was entertained again by the buzzard, now back on its previous perch, as it called out to me as I returned to the car. |
Posted by baza12th September 2003ce Edited 13th September 2003ce |
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Hmmm not sure about this one, no disrespect, but I reckon Lacra gets a bit of a raw deal. (Though I do agree that good weather helps.) Yes, it's very ruinous & very difficult to find each monument, but the setting & the impression of what it would have been like in its day are pretty special. Check out the links below, originally posted on the message board by baza. (Thanks baza!) |
Posted by Moth8th November 2002ce |
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Lacra A. Well this is all we could find here today. Or should I say this was all we could be bothered finding. It rained like I've not seen in a long time. It's probably just the weather but I find this site depressing. On a good day the view out to sea, and of Black Combe would make this short walk worthwhile, but not on a day like this. Lacra D is just a bit further on, after Lacra A - according to Burl this is 'questionable', and I'd go along with that!! Lacra B is by all acounts the one to see, I've seen some shots and it probably is worth the visit. On a sunny day. A VERY sunny day. Mmmm summer... |
Posted by IronMan28th January 2002ce |
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Extreme Stonefeelers' World of Hard Rock & Standing StonesPics of the Larca circles |
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Alastair's other stone circle page |
Posted by Moth 8th November 2002ce |
Megalithic Walks (Great site!!!) |
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Lacra A (Stone Circle) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by stubob15th June 2015ce |
Lacra B (Stone Circle) — Images |
   
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Posted by thesweetcheat23rd August 2012ce |
Lacra B (Stone Circle) — Miscellaneous |
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Information from the English Heritage Scheduling Record for Lacra B: A circle of six granite boulders, some standing and some fallen, enclosing an area of approximately 14.7m in diameter. The stones are irregularly shaped and vary in height between 0.35m-0.95m. Limited excavation of the monument in 1947 located a stone socket hole and suggested the original circle consisted of eleven stones. Additionally a central funerary cairn of earth and stones c.9.7m in diameter and up to 0.6m high constructed upon the old land surface was discovered. A flint flake lay upon the top of this mound. In the north east sector of the circle, also lying on top of the mound, part of a ring of stones, each about 0.6m long and pointing towards the centre of the circle, was found. An earthfast stone presently protruding above the turf line in the north west sector of the circle represents a continuation of this ring of stones which measures c.4.8m in diameter. A layer of earth considerably reddened by fire and considerable amounts of ash wood charcoal were found during the excavation near the centre of the mound just above the old landsurface. Below the very centre of the mound, under some large stones, fragments of burnt bones were all that remained of the primary burial. An excavation trench was extended to the east of the stone circle. Here an arrangement of stones was discovered lying on the old landsurface, which is thought to form either part of a ring encircling the standing stones, or one of a heap of stones assembled at the four cardinal points of the circle to help in the construction of the circle. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 23rd August 2012ce |
Lacra E (Ring Cairn) — Images |
 
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Posted by thesweetcheat 22nd August 2012ce |
Lacra E (Ring Cairn) — Miscellaneous |
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No-one seems particularly convinced of this site. Pastscape (under the record for Lacra D) states: An alleged second circle immediately to the north-west [of Lacra D] comprises three pieces of stone visible at ground level and cannot be certainly identified Aubrey Burl in A Guide To Stone Circles Of Britain, Ireland and Brittany (Yale) states that Lacra E is "a very uncertain ring cairn" that "can be imagined 25ft (8m) to the north-west [of Lacra D]". |
Posted by thesweetcheat 22nd August 2012ce |
Lacra Stone Avenue (Stone Row / Alignment) — Images |
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Posted by thesweetcheat 22nd August 2012ce |
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