<< Text Pages >> Ringstone Hill (Brierley) - Stone Circle in England in Yorkshire (South)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ringstone Hill (Brierley)Country: England County: Yorkshire (South) Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Grimethorpe Nearest Village: Brierley
Map Ref: SE42571005
Latitude: 53.585316N Longitude: 1.358429W
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 Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this long gone, destroyed, stone circle - see their entry for Ringstone Hill, Brierley, South Yorkshire.
TNA tells us: "Some doods stuck a modern ring of stones here, but it’s pretty obviously a recent construction (apparently 1990-ish); but sometime in the not-too-distant past another circle, very probably prehistoric, could be found here… First mentioned in 1591, the original stone circle which gave this place its name has seemingly gone; but the hill which preserves its name is a prominent place in the landscape, and this was very probably of some relevance to the builders. On the eastern side of the hill were two large oak trees known locally as Adam & Eve, or the Well-Bred Oaks ... in Mr Gomme’s (1880) old work on ancient meeting, or moot spots. He told: 'Ringston Hill, an eminence partly natural and partly artificial, is near a point at which meet the three wapentakes (district boundaries, PB) of Strafford, Stancross and Osgodcross. This mound appears to be connected in some manner with the early political state of this district. It was a place of rendezvous in the time of the Civil War; for in the accounts of the township of Sheffield in 1645 occurs this entry: ‘In money, coats and the charging of a guard which went to Ringston Hill with five men that were pressed, £4, 13s, 3d.’ (Hunter’s South Yorkshire ii, 407)'."
Pastscape Monument No. 52840 gives some very brief details, confirming a guard was posted here in Civil War times, but "Ringston Hill appears completely natural with no traces of earthworks."
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