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The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany, Aubrey Burl

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<< Text Pages >> Le Wheles - Stone Circle in England in Cumbria

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 14 October 2002  Page Views: 7817

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Le Wheles
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.243 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle

Map Ref: NX989180  Landranger Map Number: 89
Latitude: 54.547121N  Longitude: 3.564441W
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:
5Superb
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
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Possible Stone Circle in Cumbria

Pastscape monument no. 8471.
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Re: Le Wheles - Beautiful Bronze Age Torc found near this site by Anonymous on Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Hello, please can someone guide me to where the information came from for the grid ref for Le Wheles. I am local to the area and would like to learn more Thanks
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    Re: Le Wheles - Beautiful Bronze Age Torc found near this site by Anonymous on Tuesday, 13 February 2024
    Certainly from Barnatts book,

    Barnatt, John (1988) The design and distribution of stone circles in Britain : a reflection of variation in social organization in the second and third millennia BC. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.

    Stone Circles of Britain, Part i: Taxonomic and distributional analyses and a catalogue of sites in England, Scotland and Wales
    John Barnatt
    Published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd, 1989
    ISBN 10: 1407387294ISBN 13: 9781407387291

    Which was based in part on Burls book:

    The Stone Circles of the British Isles
    Burl, Aubrey
    Published by Yale University Press, 1979
    ISBN 10: 0300023987ISBN 13: 9780300023985

    Cumberland #22

    Enjoy!
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Re: Le Wheles - Beautiful Bronze Age Torc found near this site by AngieLake on Monday, 07 October 2019
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Having noticed the latest report about a lovely gold torc being found in a field near Whitehaven, I believe this is the nearest site we have on Meg P at the moment, so am attaching the story to this page:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7546465/Four-thousand-year-old-Bronze-Age-gold-necklace-thats-worth-11k-Cumbria.html
Story with photos, but no mention of actual grid refs.
(Sounds like a good hobby!)
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