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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stannary (Halifax)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.395 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (South) Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Halifax
Map Ref: SE088256
Latitude: 53.726728N Longitude: 1.868105W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Stone Circle in Yorkshire (South)
The site is now a built up area in Halifax, but The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) has come across a reference to a 'stannary' just west of the town centre. In 1961, place name expert A.H.Smith took this to be "probably just a stone circle" from the archaic verbs stan (stone) and hring (ring). For more information see TNA's page for Stannary, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
TNA requests: "If we could locate additional folklore or other historical data that might throw further light on this, it would be an important find. The finding of prehistoric burial remains less than a mile south of Stannary on the other side of town shows that ancient man was in Halifax, but it would be good if we could find more…"
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