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| "In the high street, leading from Kirkby Stephen to Sedbergh, near Rathey Bridge, is a circle of large stones, supposed to be a monument of druid worship." From: The History and Antiquities of Westmorland and Cumberland by Joseph Nicholson and Richard Burn Published 1777 Available via Google Books THE PARISH OF ST. OSWALD, RAVENSTONEDALE. ANTIQUITIES. In this parish we have a Stone Circle near Rawthey Bridge. From: 'Parishes (East Ward): St Oswald, Ravenstonedale', The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby (1932), pp. 214-26. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43514. The ancient Briton, who were here, have left behind them but few traces of their occupations, but in the Fell End Angle, the south-eastern quarter of the parish near Rawthey Bridge, there are megalithic remains of a stone circle. From: A Tour In Westmorland by Sir Clement Jones, published 1948 http://www.fivenine.co.uk/local_history_notebook/A%20Tour%20in%20Westmorland/chapter_6.htm Rawthey Bridge Little is known about this site. Nicholson and Burn place it by the road from Kirkby Stephen to Sedbergh near Rawthey bridge, i.e. just on the edge of the Howgill Fells. They describe it simply as a circle of large stones, supposed to be a monument of Druid worship. The Stone Circles of Cumbria John Waterhouse Pub. Phillimore &Co. 1985 |
Posted by fitzcoraldo7th June 2007ce Edited 3rd July 2007ce
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