Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Grey Croft Stone Circle | |
| placename:- | stone circle, Grey Croft | |
| site name:- | Seascale How Farm | |
| locality:- | Grey Croft | |
| parish |
Seascale parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| stone circle | ||
| Altitude | 82 feet | |
| coordinates:- |
NY033024 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY00
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| modern maps say 'restored' | ||
| 1Km square | NY0302 | |
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 78 9)
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| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| Druidical Temple (Site of) | ||
| placename:- | Druidical Temple | |
| antiquity | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| hearsay |
Falttened ring, Thom type D, diameters 27.2m and 24.4m, and
outlier; reconstructed after destruction 1820. 10 stones
left out of 12.
The tenant farmer, James Fox, buried all the stones, 1820, without the permission of his landlord. The circle was reconstructed, using the packing stones which had been left underground for locations, weathering for positioning, 1949. Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Thom, A: 1967: Megalithic Sites in Britain: Oxford University Press (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Fletcher, W: 1957:: TWCAAS: vol.57: pp.1- Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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