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Re: Druids circle - Grassington, No Yorks, Edmu...
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This whole region's been an unresolved archaeological mess since all the sites here started coming to light at the end of the 19th century.

The site The Captain described, referencing Edmund Bogg, is in all probability an Iron Age enclosure. But there's bloody loads of them in the hills here! Still, it's one of the best preserved in the region. Edmund Bogg's description and photograph of it, as the "Druid's Circle" is a slight exagerration on his behalf. Excellent though Bogg was at assembling hosts of lost folklore and ancient sites, like all of us he got stuff wrong sometimes. His picture is of what's now called the High Close Pasture Irona Age enclosure; though his wording about "a circle of stones" to the immediate south is intriguing, but it could just as well be one of the main cairns in the region (I aint checked it myself). Harry Speight shows another image of the same site from a different angle in his "Upper Wharfedale," but curiously makes no mention of the apparent druid's circle below. Further info on this and other enclosures nearby can be found in articles by Arthur Raistrick in the Yorks Archaeology Journal, parts 130 & part 134 (1937).

...And the Hunter Stone is one of several old guide-stones marking the Coverdale valley road between Kettlewell & Middleham. They were erected as guides to travellers for when snow or fog impaired travel along the valley. Their antiquity, unfortunately, aint that great.


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15th January 2005ce
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