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placename:- Iron Hill North Stone Circle
other name:- Haberwain Stone Circle
locality:- Iron Hill
parish Crosby Ravensworth parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
stone circle
coordinates:- NY596148
10Km square:- NY51

1Km square NY5914

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 15) -- perhaps relevant

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.

placename:- Druidical Circle
stone circle
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

hearsay 19 stones around a low mound.
Flatenned circle Thom type D, diameters 14.5m and 11.5m.
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)
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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