I wasn't expecting to be able to find this art, given my innability when it comes to such things. Considering that this is fibre-glass, it looks excellent and I wasn't aware of its deficiency prior to tapping it. Don't touch and you won't know, unless you read this first!
Dave 26th March 2004
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Royds Edge has the big embankments that you would expect, but the lower end seems to square off more than you might expect for a henge. The site is in a fantastic landscape setting with a steep cliff to the south, a great view across the Holme valley towards Castle Hill Fort, and the impressive Meltham Cop.. In a museum in Huddersfield there are the exhibits of an excavation of these earthworks, two stone discs of about 2 inches in diameter, a stone mould and a small while bead.
Oldfield Hill is visable from the road up to Wessenden Head and looks like a settlement of about 2 acres in a sheltered valley.
8th March 2004
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Very similar to what I imagine the burial tombs at the other end of the moor were once like. The carving is cracking and reminds me of the unfurling bud in springtime, perhaps a symbol of renewal.
Despite the news from above post, the carving still looks good!
3rd March 2004
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An obvious barrow feature, with three boulders at the centre. It is about five metres in diametre and doen't have the yellowy grass of the surrounding area. A great view across to Round Loaf. To locate, stand with your back to the woodland alongside Pike Stones and walk north up to the next bit of level ground, the barrow is on the east side of that.
3rd March 2004
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This is a tough area to walk as there are few footpaths, certainly between the sites mentioned here. So wear some stout boots. Wherever you look there are possibilities of past human settlement, my imagination ran riot. Top place though
Dave 3rd March 2004
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100yards west of the quarry and the scattered rocks is a chambred cairn, aligned south-west north-east. It is quite large and lozenge shaped, made of rubbled banks with a large cap-stone collapsed inside and a standard cairn at the sourthern end. Nearby and closer to the cliff are further similar structures. I found this quite an amazing site.
Dave 3rd March 2004
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There are lots of candidate for this title when you go up here first of all, I counted 4 similar structures, but when I found this one it was excellent. There is no evidence of carving, but this is very similar to the Pike Stones. I have mentioned that this forms an equillateral triangle with Roundloaf and Pike Stones and could be connected with Stronstrey Bank Stone.
Dave 3rd March 2004
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Easy to find in winter, it lies the otherside of the fence that runs along the bank. A very big stone with a wide base, and it is very weathered on top. It would have taken a great effort to place it there. It would be a great setting for a stone circle with the valley and Grey Heights beyond, if any evidence of other stones could be found.
A quick note about the incised triangle, if you look on the map the Pike Stones, Round Loaf, and Black Coppice are equal distances away from each other creating an equalateral triangle, of which the Bank Stone could parody.
Take a look on yer Explorer map
One for a dryer day.
Dave 3rd March 2004
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Greens Object Stonehenge Road Plans
Proposed road cutting would dominate World Heritage Site, say Salisbury Greens. If the A303 proposals were approved, the new road cutting would become the most prominent monument within the Stonehenge World. Heritage Site: the 21st century monument to the car, a kind of inverted Cursus, rivalling the original Cursus in size."
That's the warning Salisbury Green Party will present to the public inquiry that begins on Tuesday (17th February).
Local spokesperson Hamish Soutar will tell the inquiry that the damage caused by the new road would far outweigh any benefits from closing the existing roads. He will call for a return to the consensus reached at the 1995 Red Lion Planning Conference. "The Conference agreed with the aim of removing the roads entirely, at least from the area known as the Stonehenge Bowl. There is no surface route for a new road that would meet either with that objective, or with the government's international obligations to protect the World Heritage Site. English Heritage and the present government are betraying the public by backing the proposed road scheme."
Local Greens say no new road should be built, leaving the current A303 where it is but implementing road safety measures such as closing the junction with the A344 (something first recommended nearly 70 years ago). But if the government is determined to press ahead with its road-building plans, they say the only solution is a long tunnel under the entire World Heritage Site, as originally proposed by the National Trust and English Heritage and backed by the 1995 Conference.
Hamish Soutar says: "We don't really want the tunnel, but we are putting it forward because it is important that the Inquiry should consider it. We will argue that any tunnel design has to include every available safety feature, whatever the cost. We will also argue that there are benefits to be had from putting the whole project on hold for twenty years or so. Technology is changing, transport policy changes, and Stonehenge itself is old enough to wait."
Finally, he adds: "The most important World Heritage Site that we need to protect is the world itself. Our uncertain future will not be helped by continuing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on vast new roads. Our duty to conserve Stonehenge for future generations is pointless unless we ensure that they have a world fit to live in.
Green Party WebSite
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A very large glacial erratic that stones have been piled up to to form a cairn like structure. This stone dominates the landscape and is of the same stone type as the central stones at Miller's Grave. It is certain to be part of the ritual landscape of this moorland.
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A 4 foot standing stone it is heavily weathered. It is supported at the base by smaller stones and appears to have been re-erected. It is very close to Miller's grave and to the south of another standing stone dated from the 18th century called the Greenwood Stone, a boundary stone bearing the date 1775.
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A list of Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Calderdale District
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A prominent burial mound which, it is suspected once had a chamber. There are two massive slabs at the centre. This site has been heavily plundered over the years but it is quite nice. Its 4o foot diametre shape may have been recreated recently as the stones around it are built in a wall-like fashion.
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The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year's Eve. It is said to be named after a milk-maid who died whilst carrying milk to the villages here. There is also a legend that a penny placed on the stone will bring good luck.
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A near seven foot high monolith at the junction of several footpaths.
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A small, intriguingly named moor to the west of Halifax with some interesting features (a robbed tumulus, a stone circle, the site of burial mounds and an Iron age embankment). You can walk around them in a few hours and see lots of wildlife.
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A map of scheduled ancient monuments on Ringstone Moor.
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Nothing immediately visible on a highly cultivated hill top, but some slightly raised areas could be mounds. There is however a scheduled ancient monument here somewhere, according to Magic.
1st February 2004
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An enclosure defended to the north by banks and to the south by a steep incline. It spreads across two fields and is quite large. The afore mentioned farmer (see other entries in this trip) had used some of the stone that formed the banks to help rebuild his stone walls!
20th January 2004This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
On the very summit is a robbed tumulus made up of small stones. No view on this occaision but it was in an imposing position.
Dave 20th January 2004This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
I found a cluster of very large stones in an irregular pattern between the path and the southerly wall. I will go back when there is less fog around. By the way the land has been tended, I would not trust that any of the piles of large weathered were not it, or indeed those of Ell Clough.
Dave 20th January 2004This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
At the bend of, and above the path, this circle stands. It is 14 yards in diameter and has a bank and interior ditch. It is well pronounced and has a dramatic position. There are several stones in a pile at one side of the feature, next to what looks like an entrance.
Dave 20th January 2004This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
This one is off the beaten track, it certainly was in the thick fog that I went in today. A very small stone circle. Access is via a very muddy footpath, but there is loads to see.
A circle of 6 stones, 2 of which are upright, but it still looks like a good circle. There is a central mound and an embankment.
The immediate land surface has been obliterated by the farmer in his/her tractor. There are deep ruts and flotsam and jetsom everywhere. I am deeply concerned about the future of this site.
20th January 2004This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
This looks much like a henge to me. A large rubble bank and internal ditch, it is 45 yards in width. In the lush green grass, it looked quite obvious.This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
The old map of 1852 suggests that this is a "British Camp". I don't quite know what they mean by that!
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A large enclosure with south-eastern entrance (ish, sorry, no compass). Approximately 30 yards across. There is a very evident rubble bank, but no inner ditch, all around and a central robbed mound. There is however a large stone in the mound. There is a large robbed mound next to the entrance.
There is a short steep climb up to this one from the road, and it is situated at the northern end of a small quarry.
It was far to foggy on this ocaision to explore further.
Dave 20th January 2004This post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
Small desolate moor to the West of Halifax, above Mytholmroyd. Much evidence of ancient habitation, but little charted on OS map. There are three bronze age enclosures to the south of Crow Hill which I have yet to confidently find.
You can park on the roadside in Midgely or walk up from Mytholmroyd StationThis post appears as part of the blog post " Where the Fogging Ell am I" |
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Found it this time, a bit easier in winter, though the river is more boggy. Very small, but it is well worth finding.
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Absolutely cracking. In the dark, late afternoon gloom it was difficult to find but when I did...... 22 stones of possibly 24 still there. Try counting yourself but get there before spring. There are 3 paces between each stone and most are above grass level but for one or two you have to scrape beck the grass.
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A very nice embanked circle, looking very dramatic in today's grey weather. The most prominent stone appears to be to the south-west. Flowers were laid on it today. The cairn next to the circle is very bizarre, some one had mutilated two onions in a variety of mystical ways
Dave 5th January 2004
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A large Iron Age embanked enclosure with Norman Motte and Bailey. Impressive banks and views all around. There is a small car park and plaque and the site is well sign-posted.
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A celtic enclosed settlement visible from the roadside. Still an imposing set of earthworks. Judging by the weather, the banks may be for protection from the wind rather than defensive, as they only defend from two sides. There is a quarry at the back so other banks may now be ruined.
Dave 28th December 2003
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John Watson, an eighteenth century local historian and antiquarian, writes about druidical stones called the "Wolf Stones". Barkisland, a nearby village translates to "wolf country". In 1905, five sets of cremated remains and an urn were reported to have been found within a small mound at the centre of the circle.
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An old map of the site lends weight to the idea that this "cairn-circle" may have been a stone circle. This map says that that in 1854 this site was "supposed driudical" and calls it a "ring of stones". There is also a track running past it that is not visible from the ground, as the field has been cultivated
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Using footpath directions noted upto Ringstone Edge Cairn Circle, follow footpath and wall from it's right-hand corner down to a gate, climb over the wall hear and continue down until just before a small quarry is a robbed out barrow. It is right up against the wall.
Dave 28th December 2003
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Walk up a concrete bridleway and past a dilapidated farm building. When you reach the gate climb over and follow the wall on the right. Be careful as this field is used for radio controlled aeroplanes. Upon reaching the right-hand corner of the wall, the ring-cairn is off to the left over a brow of the hill. The run way is just before you get to it.
The cairn itself is in the middle of a cultivated grass field but the interior is unblemished. It has a low rubble bank, around 27 yards in diametre enclosing a large 4 foot prostrate stone near the centre and there are other big stones.
Other sources suggest that this is the remains of a stone circle that was desturbed by the building of a reservoir very nearby.
The cairn is visible fom a long way off and can be seen from the road at the south end of the reservoir.
Dave 28th December 2003
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Aerial Photograph of Ringstone Edge Cairn Circle
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It is very difficult to imagine that something like this could survive, in an area that has very few visible remains. This site could easily look like several piles of agricultural waste. It's nice to think that there could be perfectly preserved burials in them thar hills.
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Surrounded by trees (the saviour of the barrow in Lincolnshire), this long barrow is right in the middle of a farmed field with no footpath. It is probably best to go at harvest time. It is however visible from the road.
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As you drive between Binbrook and the A18 and pass Hoe Hill Farm (which is currently up for sale!), this barrow is immediately adjacent to the left. It is completely enveloped in trees, thus probably protecting it from the itensive agriculture of these parts.
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Very close to the site of Mosley Height. On the roadside embankment right next to the wall is a standing stone about 3 feet in height
Dave 25th November 2003
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A roughly circular area of stoney embankments, with a curved "avenue" heading up the hill, probably well trashed by wall builders but it is very recognisable.
Walk north 500yds from Worsthorne Hill Stone Circle over stile and it is on the right.
Dave 25th November 2003
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From Worsthorne head east along a straight lane and park up as this becomes a bridleway. Take the second public footpath to the north and walk to the summit of the hill. Here you will find two boulders on a raised circular area marking out a barrow, tumulus, cairn, circle. There area at least 4 large stones a few feet below the banks as outliers or kerbs.
10 yards to the north of this is a raised circular embankment made of stones covered with turf, cunningly marked by a belfast sink at the moment.
Dave 25th November 2003
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In the field so aptly described by Treehugger there are two areas that attracted my interest before finding what was actually the circle. Firstly a raised circular area, about 25 foot across right at the apex of two streams. This is not anything significant as it is on top of a area of landfill. But further to the north in the same field, next to the path is a circular banked area which looks quite interesting.
I found the actual circle after reurning from the other sites in the area. There are three low stones (9 inches), two clearly visible whilst close and one covered in moss. According to another site there remains two other stones hidden and the stumps of a stone row. I will take another look. Fantastic views.
Dave 25th November 2003
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Walshaw dean was submerged under a lot of water at the beginning of the last century. Upon hearing that there was low levels of water in many reservoirs at the moment I decided that I would take a chance and see if I could see it. The water wasn't as low as I thought it might be. I didn't see the circle but I did get the opportunity to see the setting in which it would have been. Beautiful views and in a fantastic bowl-like arena. Next time there is a hose-pipe ban get up there
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Photograph from 1902 of this stone circle, it is only visible in periods of severe drought, and some fieldnotes.
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Live in and run a pub called the Rat & Ratchet in Huddersfield. Come and see me and we can talk about all sorts of stuff from Stone Circles to Heritage Action.
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