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Bradup is gone (?)

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David Raven Jul 4, 2004 17:50:37

Replying to Paulus

If that is definately the site (to the south of the farm on the west side of the road), then check out the aerial pic. It might be nowt, but there could be the trace of a semi-circular shape in the field to the east of Bradup Farm...

So that's yet another day out to plan! Has Kozmik Ken moved up here yet? I reckon he'd be up for a good rummage about round there again too?

I wonder how the confusion arose over the grid refs? (See aformentioned article and newspaper report on the link)...
Has Paul Kenyon any updated info for the actual grid refs after he'd decided he'd got it wrong?

Kozmik_Ken Jul 5, 2004 09:27:16

Replying to David Raven

>So that's yet another day out to plan! Has Kozmik Ken moved up here yet? I reckon he'd be >up for a good rummage about round there again too?

Hi Dave.... I'm still in Norwich, but am moving to Worsbrough on the edge of Barnsley at the end of this month.

I'm always up for a good rummage on Rombalds!

I think you are right in saying that the OS map marks the wrong spot for the Bradup circle and infact marks the boulder cluster that was often mistaken for the circle. I wrote to EH and they said that Bradup was descheduled in 1994 'showing no characteristics of a stone circle'. Seems they got the wrong spot too.

Can't say for sure where the blame lies, but judging on his past record, I don't think the landowner has done much to help.

Paulus Jul 5, 2004 10:16:11

Replying to David Raven

Ey up Dave

< If that is definately the site (to the south of the farm on the west side of the road), then check out the aerial pic. It might be nowt, but there could be the trace of a semi-circular shape in the field to the east of Bradup Farm... >

See wot y' mean. Looks intriguing - but aint that marshland? Have y' had a look at that spot?

But have a look at the black dot on the where the site actually was. There is a faint circle surrounding the site, as if some sort of embankment/henge or summat, from the wall-edge to the fence where the moorland starts. Unless that was the original size of the circle!!! (big doubts) The mystery deepens...