Shapbeck Plantation Stone Circle View all content for Shapbeck Plantation

V.E. Turner reported this circle in the 1986 Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society (vol LXXXVI) as a previously unrecorded circle. A few notes from his notes He describes 3 concentric rings of stones with the tallest stones in the eastern partof the outer ring. Twenty eight stones survive inthe outermost ring, diameter 20.5m. Eighteen stones form the second ring & seven are visible in the innermost ring. Within the outermost ring is a cairn of stones. There is possible evidence of cobbling.

Posted by fitzcoraldo 10th December 2004ce

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