The Knar

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It's got a low bank, rectangular-shaped, with what may be an outside ditch. It's got upright stones - a little like teeth - with a well defined gateway, or entrance - I call it a wicket - and corners. Half of it is missing, so there are just three sides remaining, and it is oriented toward the northernmost rising position of the moon. Perhaps four hundred yards away, across the South Tyne, are three cairns, two of which were excavated in 193?. In one was found the Kirkhaugh gold ornament ('Kirkhaugh' and 'gold' are all that Google needs to find a picture of it). Nobody on this board has either visited or seen this site. I have several pictures but there is no site listed now. Someone did claim to have visited but I think it must have been in a dream, or something. The rectangular enclosure - and I am happy to be corrected on its correct nomenclature - is within what remains of a very large double circle, with a diameter of, perhaps, 70-80m. There is a slightly similar enclosure known at Castle Rigg, maybe fifty miles away. This site is not far - say ten miles, as the crow flies - from Long Meg and her daughters. Nearby is an old drystone house that I describe as 'Viking' - it's called Oldwall.

Stoneshifter wrote:
It's got a low bank, rectangular-shaped, with what may be an outside ditch. It's got upright stones - a little like teeth - with a well defined gateway, or entrance - I call it a wicket - and corners. Half of it is missing, so there are just three sides remaining, and it is oriented toward the northernmost rising position of the moon. Perhaps four hundred yards away, across the South Tyne, are three cairns, two of which were excavated in 193?. In one was found the Kirkhaugh gold ornament ('Kirkhaugh' and 'gold' are all that Google needs to find a picture of it). Nobody on this board has either visited or seen this site. I have several pictures but there is no site listed now. Someone did claim to have visited but I think it must have been in a dream, or something. The rectangular enclosure - and I am happy to be corrected on its correct nomenclature - is within what remains of a very large double circle, with a diameter of, perhaps, 70-80m. There is a slightly similar enclosure known at Castle Rigg, maybe fifty miles away. This site is not far - say ten miles, as the crow flies - from Long Meg and her daughters. Nearby is an old drystone house that I describe as 'Viking' - it's called Oldwall.
Thanks , it's just that "Long Mortuary Enclosures " to my mind are a figment of Atkinson's fevered mind , he being the one who coined the term The sad thing is , there is no evidence at any of them of excarnation . Being pit defined would also make recognition difficult . Do you have rough dimensions and a grid ref ? It would be good to check the declination .