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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Skirtful of Stones (Ingleborough)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.827 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Horton-in-Ribblesdale  Nearest Village: Selside
Map Ref: SD785747
Latitude: 54.167643N  Longitude: 2.330808W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
Destroyed Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Cairn in Yorkshire (North)

On the eastern side of the great Ingleborough, could once to be seen another of the giant cairns which once scattered the mid-Pennines in ancient days. It could be found less than a mile south of the hamlet of Selside, a few miles above Horton-in-Ribblesdale, on the western side of the B6479. Its existence is thankfully preserved in the place-name, Borrens (1), where the giant tomb was once found.

In 1892, the great Yorkshire historian Harry Speight (2) told us:

"We have no proper account of it, but it was doubtless ransacked and removed in the expectation of finding treasure. It is mentioned...in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1761, as follows:

'In the valley above Horton, near the base of this mountain (Ingleborough), I observed a large heap or pile of greet-stones all thrown promiscuously together, without any appearance of building or workmanship, which yet cannot be reasonably thought to be the work of Nature. Few stones are found near it, though 'tis computed to contain 400 of that country cart-loads of stones, or upwards. There is likewise another at the base north-east, in resemblance much the same, but scarce so large.'"

Speight then speculated that it may have been raised to commemorate "some dire conflict between the Romans and the native hill tribes, as it lay on the old Roman thoroughfare across Ribblehead to the camp under Smearside." Of course, we may never be sure; though there are plenty of Iron- and Bronze Age remains scattering this region - and just a few hundred yards south of this lost cairn are the remains of an ancient settlement.

References:
1. Smith, A.H., English Place-Name Elements, volume 1, Cambridge University Press 1956, pp.57-8. See also, Smith, A.H., Place-Names of the West Riding, volume 6, Cambridge University Press 1961, pp.221.
2. Speight, Harry, The Craven and Northwest Yorkshire Highlands, Elliott Stock: London 1892, pp.177
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SD7874 : On the bridleway near Borrins by Karl and Ali
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SD7874 : Borrins from path to Selside by Tom Richardson
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SD7874 : Looking along the dyke to Borrins by John Haynes
by John Haynes
©2010(licence)
SD7874 : Track leading down to the B6479 by Chris Heaton
by Chris Heaton
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SD7874 : Fields on the limestone by John Haynes
by John Haynes
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