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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grey Croft Alternative Name: GreycroftCountry: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Whitehaven Nearest Village: Seascale
Map Ref: NY03340238 Landranger Map Number: 89
Latitude: 54.407661N Longitude: 3.490715W
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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drolaf visited on 10th Aug 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 a lovely little circle of interesting local agglomerate stones
BolshieBoris visited on 1st Jan 1992 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 1 Access: 2
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 2.5 Access: 2.5
For information see Pastscape Monument No. 8753, an extract of which reads: "Bronze Age in date and consisting of 12 stones, it was buried in 1820. The site was excavated and restored in 1949 when a cairn was also found in the centre of the circle; it covered a possible cremation with a jet or lignite ring."
They add that "An outlier was found 70' north of an unburied stone, whilst a large broken boulder 200 yds south-west of the circle, and 4 partly buried boulders to the south-east, may have been associated with it. A Great Langdale Late-Neolithic stone-axe was found near stone 4. An oval stone cairn 22' x 15' and 2' - 2.5' high was situated in the circle centre .... ten stones in a circle survive of a fairly uniform height c1.3m height."
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