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I find tombs most bizarre, they look almost alien without their outer layers and this is no exception.
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Intriguing circle, though overgrown by hedges and a fence dissects the site. It is in private land with no access so seeking permission is advisable. The bank and setting of the stones is very similar to Grange but there is a circle within the circle as well. There is an outer bank which is retained by the outer stones. There is a mini circle just outside the circle in a similar fashion to that at grange. It is possible this is a burial mound, however.
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After a closer inspection of the monuments record I have found some of these mounds. All are concentrated in a relatively small area and one has narrowly escaped being quarried away (photos to come later, I don't seem to be able to post them at the minute). At least one is visible on the sky line looking into the direction of the sun.
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I had a closer shufty around here today and found what could be an inscribed stone. It is broken but has a definite cross with a border around it. I have a picture and it will appear here shortly.
I found four large stones today, one at least five foot tall but laying prostrate. The other three were between 2 and a half and three foot tall, again, laying prostrate.
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This site is on a very pleasant walk with great view across one of Yorkshire's finest valleys. From its position Castle Hill (an Iron Age Hill Fort) is very imposing, across this valley is an ancient burial area. The stone is an outcrop on Netherton Edge. I identified the site having been informed about its existence by Paulus, and looking at rock climbing websites! The rock has stunning views but I have as yet to find the legendary footprint. Paulus... it's over to you.
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A substantial cairnfield with quite impressive embankment made of rubble about half a metre high. Most of the cairns have been robbed for stone but some have survived. There are wonderful pasturelands one side and wooded escarpment to the other. Not really worth going to see especially but you can have some nice walks around here
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A cairn field with some substantial mounds upto half a metre high and an intrigueing double ditch most of which has been cut through by modern roads. The site is in a well maintained wooded modern enclosure. Two fields down there is a possibility that this double ditch continues, but I am not sure yet.
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Yet to be convinced about this one although the photos look convincing. There are a lot of stones lying around both inside and outside this circle and it fails to occupy a particulary flat plateau (that is to say it is on a hill). There is an outlier which is directly south of the stone in the photograph.
A few more trips there are needed me thinks
Dave
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The stones by the entrance do not appear to be contemporary. One appears to be concrete, like a foundation for a gatepost, and the rest are tooled.
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When you think of neolithic enclosures, you often think about hardly evident earthworks in a long cultivated field. This one, however is massive in terms of its embankments of large boulders. Most of the southern end of the birch wood is enclosed and the enclosure extends accross the next two southerly fields. In the northern of these fields, the embankments have been cleared out of the field.
Dave 26th March 2004
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A small ring cairn with south east and north west entrances. The south east one aligns directly with the pass that the A619 goes through. There is a rubble embakment and shallow inner ditch. This place has a great ambience.
Dave 26th March 2004
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Royds Edge has the big embankments that you would expect, but the lower end seems to square off more than you might expect for a henge. The site is in a fantastic landscape setting with a steep cliff to the south, a great view across the Holme valley towards Castle Hill Fort, and the impressive Meltham Cop.. In a museum in Huddersfield there are the exhibits of an excavation of these earthworks, two stone discs of about 2 inches in diameter, a stone mould and a small while bead.
Oldfield Hill is visable from the road up to Wessenden Head and looks like a settlement of about 2 acres in a sheltered valley.
8th March 2004
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An obvious barrow feature, with three boulders at the centre. It is about five metres in diametre and doen't have the yellowy grass of the surrounding area. A great view across to Round Loaf. To locate, stand with your back to the woodland alongside Pike Stones and walk north up to the next bit of level ground, the barrow is on the east side of that.
3rd March 2004
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This is a tough area to walk as there are few footpaths, certainly between the sites mentioned here. So wear some stout boots. Wherever you look there are possibilities of past human settlement, my imagination ran riot. Top place though
Dave 3rd March 2004
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100yards west of the quarry and the scattered rocks is a chambred cairn, aligned south-west north-east. It is quite large and lozenge shaped, made of rubbled banks with a large cap-stone collapsed inside and a standard cairn at the sourthern end. Nearby and closer to the cliff are further similar structures. I found this quite an amazing site.
Dave 3rd March 2004
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There are lots of candidate for this title when you go up here first of all, I counted 4 similar structures, but when I found this one it was excellent. There is no evidence of carving, but this is very similar to the Pike Stones. I have mentioned that this forms an equillateral triangle with Roundloaf and Pike Stones and could be connected with Stronstrey Bank Stone.
Dave 3rd March 2004
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Easy to find in winter, it lies the otherside of the fence that runs along the bank. A very big stone with a wide base, and it is very weathered on top. It would have taken a great effort to place it there. It would be a great setting for a stone circle with the valley and Grey Heights beyond, if any evidence of other stones could be found.
A quick note about the incised triangle, if you look on the map the Pike Stones, Round Loaf, and Black Coppice are equal distances away from each other creating an equalateral triangle, of which the Bank Stone could parody.
Take a look on yer Explorer map
One for a dryer day.
Dave 3rd March 2004
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A very large glacial erratic that stones have been piled up to to form a cairn like structure. This stone dominates the landscape and is of the same stone type as the central stones at Miller's Grave. It is certain to be part of the ritual landscape of this moorland.
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A 4 foot standing stone it is heavily weathered. It is supported at the base by smaller stones and appears to have been re-erected. It is very close to Miller's grave and to the south of another standing stone dated from the 18th century called the Greenwood Stone, a boundary stone bearing the date 1775.
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A prominent burial mound which, it is suspected once had a chamber. There are two massive slabs at the centre. This site has been heavily plundered over the years but it is quite nice. Its 4o foot diametre shape may have been recreated recently as the stones around it are built in a wall-like fashion.
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