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>If your reading this Robokid..ask at the farm

Also to answer your questions,

1. Yes the black & white picture is years old.

2. The google earth map points are often way off mark - I wouldn't use them unless the grid ref is either an 8 or 10 point ref. If you use the streepmap link on the page -
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=498300&y=496900&z=3&sv=498300,496900&st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
it's much closer (plus the position is shown on the OS map).

3. The stones are on open land just over the fence to the east of the forest. The colour photos by me and Stu were taken with the trees just behind us.

In my post I wrote 'walk southwest along the track from the barrier at SE982975 then follow the line of trees that run southeast'. If you follow the track to Fitz's co-ordinates you'll be there.
Good luck!

-Chris

Perhaps the confusion with two entries arose because there seems to have been another stone circle nearby until relatively recently. I've been trying to find out a bit about it, without much success. The Megalithic Portal has this, which seems to suggest that there were two different sites, and one was destroyed as recently as 2001:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=3136

I also found this on the Scarborough Evening News website:

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Stone-circle-lies-in-ruins.388665.jp

The only other reference I could find was in Cloughton Parish Council's notes from late 2001 - early 2002, which makes reference to "the stone circle at the Hulleys" being badly damaged by contractors. The Hulleys is a farm / estate, about a mile and a half East of Standingstones Rigg on the road to Staintondale and Ravenscar. No stone circle, or site of one shown anywhere near the Hulleys on my OS map though - anybody got any more on this?