Hut circle with numerous cairns on the horizon
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Cairns showing the breathtaking views surrounding Barnscar
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This site is a huge Bronze Age Bowl barrow which is 10 Metres high.
This site is a Scheduled ancient Monument with evidence of Paaeolithic Settlement. Nestled high in the Crag with great views across the bay.
Directions.
Head out of Warton down Sand Laneand onto New Road. Go past the Caravan park and at your first major bend in the road after the park youll see a layby to your right park there and its directly above you in the Crag.
Ugly modern Cairn next Prehistoric one on the very Summit of Warton Crag.
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The entrance to the Badger Hole up on the side of the Crag
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This should help clear things up a bit!
For info on the Circle
magic.gov.uk/rsm/23729.pdf
For info on the Cairn
magic.gov.uk/rsm/23730.pdf
I gotta admit I was a little underwhelmed when I found this rock. I think it’s because I was expecting something bigger, but then again its a Fairy’s Chair so...
I’m sure its a beautiful spot on a warm summers day. It’s just a shame it’s stuck right next to the fence and someone has seen fit to damage this stone. Nice carving on the base, just be careful on that moor. I ended up waist deep in a Bog!
Detail of the Damage at the back of the stone
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My dog for sizing and also Demonstrating how comfy the chair is!
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Wide angle of the larger Cairn on a Particulary Foggy day!
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Robbed out Tumulus showing the Bank and Ring of Stones at Hambledon theres a large slab nearby which could have been a capping stone on one of the Cairns
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Cairn at Hambledon Pasture with Barrow in Backround
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Close up of the Carving on The Queen of the Fairies Chair
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The much older steps/footprints round the side of the Great stone
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Queen of the Fairies chair
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Steps cut into the side of the stone.
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Looking from the top of the rock to Ingleton note the voids in centre of the pic where the other stones used to sit.
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The stone looking North note the modern carvings of peoples names, this seems to be an old tradition some of these name carvings are a few centuries old too!
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Modern Cairn on top of the original burial mound.
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The Enclosure is very prominent from the side of the road.
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Remains of the cairn in the centre of the field.
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Close up of the mound and remaining stones the largest is a concrete block!
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The Great stone in its surroundings.
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The cairn is located on the summit of Jeffrey Hill in Lancs and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The Cairn is now reduced to a low rubble mound now marked by a modern cairn.
The summit of this hill appears to have been severely overlooked by EH because there seems to be quite a few prominent features littering this hill probably associated with this cairn, i noticed at least a couple more ‘cairnlike’ features on the East side of the hill theres a cup marked rock amongst a bank of stones, 8 low stones in a roughly circular alligment and also another 5 that line up in a row i’d usually dismiss these as eratics but a couple of these stones do seem purposely placed being your classic ‘kerb stone’ shape but standing vertical very confusing. This hill needs to be seriously looked at again!
Beautiful views across to Parlic Pike, Beacon Fell and Bleasedale. Well worth a visit.
cup marked rock on Jeffrey Hill, a rarity in Lancashire
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Cairn viewed from the other side of the mound
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