<< Our Photo Pages >> Castle Stead Ring - Misc. Earthwork in England in Yorkshire (West)
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Multi-periodSite Name: Castle Stead Ring Alternative Name: Castlestead Ring (Cullingworth); Blood Dykes (Cullingworth)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.79 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Keighley Nearest Village: Cullingworth
Map Ref: SE05143627
Latitude: 53.822678N Longitude: 1.923402W
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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A semi-circular earthwork, thought to be a bronze-age enclosure. It appears to be the remaining half of a circle, split in two by the lane, and now also bisected by the adjacent dry-stone wall. The other half, in the next field, is sadly absent!
Approximately 150 feet in diameter (measured along the dry-stone wall), it was originally thought to cover one and three-quarter acres.
Update May 2017: The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page on this earthwork - see their entry for Castlestead Ring, Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, which gives directions on how to find this site ("dead easy this one!"), together with a photograph, a drawing of the site from 1898, an image of the 1852 map and a brief archaeology and history.
More information can be found on Pastscape Monument No. 47897, which adds: "the enclosure is visible on air photographs ..... the northern section is visible as an earthwork but part of the southern section is visible as a cropmark."
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