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13 Stones Cairn(s) |
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Cairns A & B Cairn(s) |
Latest posts for Crosby Ravensworth Common |
Cairns A & B (Cairn(s)) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
   
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Posted by fitzcoraldo20th April 2004ce |
13 Stones (Cairn(s)) — Images |
  
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Posted by fitzcoraldo 20th April 2004ce |
Cairns A & B (Cairn(s)) — Miscellaneous |
| The famous barrow digger Cannon Greenwell excavated these barrows and recovered broken bones from Cairn A and the scattered bones of two bodies, the bones of an ox and a later insertion cremation in a collared urn from Cairn B |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 11th March 2004ce |
Cairns A & B (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes |
| These two fellas lay on open land besides the Great Asby Road. The most easterly of the pair is the most interesting and shows the remains of a ditch and a possible granite boulder kerb. There is also a small granite boulder in the middle of the cairn. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 11th March 2004ce Edited 20th April 2004ce |
13 Stones (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes |
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I got the name of this site from the 1863 map. The site is on the junction of the track to Gaythorne Hall with the Great Asby 'wilderness road'. There is a row of lovely rounded Shap Granite boulders amongst a group of trees beside the farmhouse, which could be the remains of a circle or kerb. The house does not appear on the old map so the stones may even be a clearance of 'The 13 stones', they seem too well aligned for that though. Watch out for the free roaming sheep, they mobbed me. Baaaa 4 feet good! |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 11th March 2004ce |
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