Re: Walshaw Dean - Location? | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

Paulus Aug 29, 2006 18:45:55

Replying to LivingRocks

< does the full text of ‘Yorkshire Coiners’ offer any more clues? >

Positionally, no. He simply told: "The position of the circle is on the left hand side of the valley going up, a few yards above the damn of the second reservoir." Though in the Great Drought a few yars back, Fortean writer Andy Roberts told me he'd been for a wander up here and saw it just as Ling Roth shows it in his picture. I seem to recall either him or a mate getting a photo of the site in situ during the drought. I'm sure you'd be able to find him on-line somewhere, via Fortean Times or similar websites.

StoneLifter Aug 29, 2006 21:12:17

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Or at (care of) http://www.flyingsaucery.com/who.htm

LivingRocks Aug 29, 2006 21:53:12

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Paulus wrote:

< He simply told: "The position of the circle is on the left hand side of the valley going up, a few yards above the damn of the second reservoir."

That gives me a lot more confidence that what I found could be it, my spot is ‘on the left hand side of the valley going up, a few yards above the damn of the second reservoir’, the stones are in amongst the lining stones of the reservoir and are in a circle roughly 10m in diameter. I could identify what looked to be six stones of a circle, which look much older & more eroded than the casement stones. If this is the circle it’s a miracle its survived so close to the dam. I would estimate that these stones will be under about 3m of water when the reservoir fills up.

Incidentally whilst up here I took a look at the nearby Sutcliffe’s Rough stones, two of which are over the fence in Pisser Rough, should these two get their own site – The Piss Stones perhaps?

Walshaw Dean — Location?