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Wicker Street cairn and some fine limestone pavement. Looking NE.

Long Scar Pike from the northeast, on our way to White Hag stone circle.

Closer view of the cairn material. Looking north.

Looking NW towards the Lakeland fells.

As is often the case with rearranged upland cairns, the marker stones belie a much larger original cairn footprint. Looking NE towards the Pennines on the skyline.

Zoom on the summit of Long Scar Pike from Oddendale stone circle. One of the cairns is next to (but thankfully not under) the trig pillar on the right.

Be-cairned Long Scar Pike from Oddendale stone circle.

Inner ring, looking south.

Southern arc, outer ring.

Lovely pink Shap granite in the outer ring.

The inner ring, looking northeast.

The southeastern arc of the outer circle. The edge of the inner circle can be seen on the far right.

Our first sight of the low stones of the circle, approaching from the NE.

The “standing” stone (right) and friend.

Looking SSE towards Seal Howe (and the DeLorean).

Looking NW towards Hardendale Nab.

Looking NW.

Looking NE, emphasising how misshapen the ring is now.

Looking SSE.

Looking SW.

The Castlehowe welcoming committee in front of the circle. The brooding presence of the Far Eastern Fells fills the skyline.

Stones 4 and 5 (see Fitz’s plan).

Stones 2, 3, and 4 (see Fitz’s plan).

Stones 5 and 6 (see Fitz’s plan).

Post-tidy, the circle begins to emerge from the undergrowth.

Another side of the Gunnerwell Farm possible standing stone.

The “is it or isn’t it?” standing stone north of Gunnerwell Farm.

Portal stones, under a lovely early autumn sky.

As well as the lovely rounded granite boulders, a variety of stone is used in the circles, including this piece of oolitic limestone.

Inner ring from the north.

One of the remaining uprights of the outer ring.

NW quadrant, outer ring.

Impressive portal stones.

More expansive views from the circle, looking SW.

Lovely pink crystals in the granite.

Postie adds some much-needed scale to the enormous stones of the ruined circle. This must have been an awesome sight when it was intact.

Two big stones, two little ones and a killer view.

Railway? What railway?

Another view of what may (or may not) be the Ffrwd stone.

Is the leaning stone by the gate the Ffrwd stone?

Looking south.

The top of the reduced barrow. Looking WNW towards Barry, with Swanbridge over to the right.

The top of the possible barrow. Brean Down (near Weston-Super-Mare) and Steep Holm island can be seen on the horizon.

The possible round barrow at the highest point of the island.

The inner rampart. There is no obvious ditch.

The inner rampart from the west. The possible/probable round barrow is sited on the rising ground beyond.

Natural defences of vividly coloured sandstone on the southern shore of the island.

The middle rampart from the west.

The heavily overgrown outer rampart.

Sully Island from Swanbridge, not an island for a few hours.