Yule Be Disappointed
I find the festive period quite an emotional experience and i sometimes find it all a little overwhelming. So what better way to clear my head than go for some long walks and try and make some sense of sites that have puzzled me for some time. In particular 2 very large and 2 very lost stone circles.
The last remaining upright stone in the circle standing 3 feet high
Thirteen Stones Hill in the background what a walk!
Visited the remains of this circle over the festive period. unfortunately the farmers of Lancashire decided to clear this one to. A few stumps are now sadly all that remains, there is only one stone remaining in the circle standing upright.
This must have been an impressive circle
I cant quite figure this one out it seems to be more ‘henglike’ than a cairn. A curving mound intersected on both sides by a house and a road so its impossible to tell i guess.
earhtworks on top of the hill.
Round Hill and site of the settlement
This site is simply marked as an earthwork on Maps. On closer inspection it looks like a small hilltop settlement and there are a few of these around Lancs. that are quite similliar. Theres also rumoured to be a carved stone close by.
Stump cross looking east note the words stump cross crudely carved at the base.
Stump cross looking west complete with O.S. marker.
This stone seems far to close to Moseley Height i would think its an outlier to the great Circle that once stood in the field behind it.
broken stone in the field with my foot for sizing.
The pile of boulders reputed to be the remains of the circle. (tragic) its also intresting to note that on 1940’s aerial photographs these stones are not there.
Its very easy to make out the location of where this circle once stood theres faint traces of circular embankments at the top of the small hill in the field behind Stump Cross .
If i were in any other county i’d find it hard to beleive that someone would have the mentality to do such a thing as clear this circle.
A complete tragedy as all that remain are a few stumps and a pile of boulders by the field wall some of the stones are huge this circle was rather large.
It was only excavated and complete in the 1950’s but for some reason was never scheduled.