Looking up into the roof of the cairn from standing – I’ve read it’s about 15ft, I’d guess at more like 20!!!
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Circle’s overgrown patch looking east, downhill from plantation over A6 & towards M6 (vaguely visible in mid distance on right).
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Dumped clearance stones and possible cairn-kerb/inner circle stones.
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Large stone at west with remnants of possible cairn/inner circle stones in background, mixed with probable ‘clearance’ stones. M6 just visible on top right by trees in distance.
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Diminutive (stump?) stone at NNWish. Hansons’ quarry building in background.
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Stone at WSW with remnants of possible cairn/inner circle stones in background, mixed with probable ‘clearance’ stones.
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Circle’s ‘giveawy ‘scrubby’ patch, approaching from east uphill from A6 towards plantation.
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Stones at SE of ‘outer’ circle. Fallow (at the mo) field to north of circle and relationship to plantation should help working out where circle is if the uncultivated patch it stands in isn’t evident....
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Stones roughly at SW of ‘outer’ circle, and just possibly, ‘inner’ circle, though it’s a bit close to the ‘outer’....
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View from hillside across valley to the east of the circle (other side of M6!). Line of hedges on either side of A6 can be seen at bottom of pic. Dodgy camera shake on overzoomed digizoom, but I think it helps ‘place’ the circle...which is the slightly darker patch roughly in middle!
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Stump of stone roughly at the south of the ‘outer’ circle.
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Biggish stone on ‘outer’ circle, roughly at the SE I guess. Top (SE) corner of (currently) fallow field north of circle can be seen at top right of pic.
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A large stone on the ‘outer’ circle. Roughly at the east I reckon.
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One of the larger stones. Kinda NNE I think!
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A smallish (or broken) remaining ‘outer’ stone. Roughly at the north from memory – that’s the Hanson’s quarry by Wilson Scar in the distance.
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Saturday 12 June 2004
In the area anyway, thought I’d pop up & get a few more pics for Stubob & Fitz who’ve shown an interest in this place.
You can still recognise the circle by the fact that there’s an uncultivated patch in a cultivated field. At the moment this year the right field is recognisable by the fact that the field to the north is either fallow or has only just been seeded – it’s bare dirt either way.
The undergrowth the stones lie amongst is not quite as thick or vicious as last year, with fewer nettles, making it MARGINALLY easier to see what’s ‘going on’.
There are roughly 12 stones left around the outside unevenly spaced and of varying sizes. The largest are probably about 6ft ‘tall’, though the majority of these are down.
I get the impression that with the possible exception of the few that are still ‘rooted’, the stones are not necessarily anywhere near their original positions. But as they stil form a vague circle, I’m not sure that it’s likely they’ve been moved far either.
Towards the western side there is what looks like it could be the remains of a cairn-kerb with a whole load of (probably) clearance stones dumped in it. There are a couple of ‘rooted’ stones in this bit, but because of the undergrowth I found it difficult to estimate where the curve would take them if more remained.
Couldn’t say whether it looked like i) nowt, ii) a few remnants of a small ‘simple’ cairn, off-centre to the outer stones, or iii) an inner circle/cairn circle like Gunnerkeld. Actually, if the latter, it’s more like Oddendale, as the outer circle doesn’t include any MASSIVE stones as at Gunnerkeld. Though they may have gone of course....
Anyway, I wish someone else’d go and have a look!!!! Preferably when the undergrowth dies down in the winter – it might be easier to make out.
The sun-bathed circle from above looking westish – I couldnt’ve wished to be anywhere else!!! This is heaven to me.
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Looking east across the circle to the hillside we approached from
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Approaching from the hillside above (east), the circle stones are not too obvious... but the platform is!!!!
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Ocifant and Jane illustrate just how spacious the main passage is
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The fifth ‘grave’ we spotted on Porth Hellick Down
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Twilight and the sun breaks through the clouds again
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The tomb showing entrance looking towards sea
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View of entrance as we rounded the mound from the north
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The entrance approaching round the mound from the south
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Along southern spur from main coastal path
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Approaching on northern spur from main coastal path – our first view
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The roof of the chamber – would have thought they could’ve made the mortar a bit less visible!
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The mound of the fourth grave we found – this one’s right by the main path
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Second grave we found looking back from sea – capstone is in centre of shot – huge (what appear to be) kerbstones!
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First Porth Hellick grave we found in foreground, second towards sea
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The second Salakee grave we found – the chamber was trashed but many of the kerbstones remained
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From outcrop overlooking upper grave – the sea is behind me and can be glimpsed on far right of pic
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View from lower grave along ‘pier’ towards eastern Isles
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