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Bradup circle Yorkshire (West)

Submitted by andy_h on Saturday, 03 July 2004  Page Views: 15907

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bradup circle Alternative Name: Kirkstones, Brass Castle
Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Keighley
Map Ref: SE089439  Landranger Map Number: 104
Latitude: 53.891205N  Longitude: 1.866067W
Condition:
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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
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0No data.
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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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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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Bradup circle
Bradup circle submitted by andy_h : Visited here to investigate reports that the circle had been destroyed and yup, it's gone! A sad cluster of rocks heaved out and dumped near the style still bear JCB marks and the field in which the circle stood has been stripped down to the soil and is now grassed over. This was a listed, protected monument and I'm sure the landowner can be prosecuted if the destruction was carried out without... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Possible Stone Circle or Ruined Cairn in West Yorkshire. According to reports, this stone/cairn circle has been destroyed during clearances by the land owner. The stones seem to have been removed by a mechanical digger and dumped at the side of the field.

I visited here to investigate reports that the circle had been destroyed and yup, it's gone! A sad cluster of rocks heaved out and dumped near the style still bear JCB marks and the field in which the circle stood has been stripped down to the soil and is now grassed over.

This was a listed, protected monument and I'm sure the landowner can be prosecuted if the destruction was carried out without permission.

Local folklore also tells that a number of stones were taken from the circle to build the nearby Bradup Bridge.

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Contributor Bio for andy_h: Based in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, contributing since 2003. Favourite site: IlkleyMoor. Occupation: Graphic Artist.

Bradup circle
Bradup circle submitted by DavidRaven : A conspicuous upright stone on the moorland adjacent to the former site of the Bradup circle. If you take the public footpath that runs west from Bradup, leave the field and get onto the moor. The stone is on your right, down the slope to Bradup beck. It looked like it had two possible cup-marks. I couldn't seem to find it in the PRAWR book. (Apologies for not having a useful grid ref.). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bradup circle
Bradup circle submitted by andy_h : Visited here to investigate reports that the circle had been destroyed and yup, it's gone! A sad cluster of rocks heaved out and dumped near the style still bear JCB marks and the field in which the circle stood has been stripped down to the soil and is now grassed over. This was a listed, protected monument and I'm sure the landowner can be prosecuted if the destruction was carried out without... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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More details of what happened to Bradup by Andy B on Friday, 27 August 2010
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More details of what happened to Bradup here:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=4106&forum=1&start=0
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Re: Bradup by aknifethatfellfromthesky on Thursday, 26 August 2010
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i can confirm that this circle is gone, verification being provided by the lady who lives in the nearby house (who is NOT the perpertrator of the vandalisim, she's as gutted as we were on arrival)

dean
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Re: Bradup is gone! by Anonymous on Thursday, 26 February 2009
I was born in Micklethwaite and lived in Riddlesden until I left for University in the mid-60s. When we walked up to Ilkley Moor we often stopped by Bradup (near Upwood) and looked at the circle. I am not an archaeologist but it always looked convincing to me. So sad to hear its gone.
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Re: Bradup is gone! by DavidRaven on Saturday, 03 July 2004
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The Bradup stone circle has been destroyed. That we know, but there seems to be some confusion as to the culprit, the exact position of the site and the date of it’s levelling.

Research undertaken by a colleague, Briga, has revealed that the circle may have been destroyed in the early 1970’s by British Gas contractors laying a pipeline across the moors. She contacted a local historian concerning the site and was told; "I've lived here 18 years... I heard about it from a local man who had seen the circle, he told me it was there, and then, after the pipeline, it had gone".

A little on-line ferreting can lead one to an old cached webpage of the ‘Mystical World Wide Web’ site that says;-
‘SE.089439
Keighley. Bradup Stone circle, nr Bradup Bridge
This ruined but recognisable, embanked, stone circle measures 9.2 metres in diameter. Approximately 9 stones remain of this circle which is thought to originally have had 26 blocks of millstone grit, this circle is thought to date to around 2200-1400 BC. Not shown on O/S maps.’

Briga told us ‘Having visited Bradup some 17 years ago Paul Kenyon recorded on his website it is "now ruinous and virtually unrecognisable". The map reference he gave was SE 089 439. He says that later he realised the photograph of several stones in a rough circle he had put on his website was not the circle, he said "All that remains is a circular embankment with a single stone still in place".

Further research led me to an old article in a local newspaper, the Keighley News, from 1998 (31st January) which related the sad tale of the circle’s destruction;-

‘A historic moorland stone circle has vanished.

Walkers and local residents are unable to find the Bradup circle - dubbed 'Riddlesden's Stonehenge' - which used to be a few yards off Ilkley Road on Rombalds Moor.
Hilary Simpson, who lives near the bronze age site, is appealing to Keighley News readers for information about its disappearance. She believes it was disturbed by contractors digging a gas pipeline across the moor almost three decades ago.
Mrs Simpson, of Bradup Farm, says sun worshippers visited the site after she moved in 12 years ago, but couldn't find the circle. "Every so often someone knocks on my door and asks where it is," she says. "The stone circle will have been here for thousands of years. Friends and locals remember it clearly up to about the late 1960s. Somebody must be responsible for it being removed, and for the sake of heritage someone must be made to reinstate it."
Former Riddlesden resident Ken Pickles, who has walked the moors all his life, also believes the circle vanished around the time the gas pipe was laid. "I first walked this moor in 1945," he says. "In the late 1960s there were definitely 12 there. It was a perfect stone circle. It offends me that children should be denied things like this. It was Riddlesden's Stonehenge."
The stone circle has been marked on Ordnance Survey maps for many years though recent editions have described it as 'remains'. There were originally 18 stones but by 1929 just 12 remained, the others used in the construction of nearby Bradup Bridge.
A stone circle expert who visited in the early 1990s found what he believed to be the site, but just one stone remained next to a pile of rubbish and oil drums. Another possible site is a few yards west, where several large stones lay strewn in the thick heather.
Gavin Edwards, Bradford council's archaeology officer, says he tried to survey the circle 20 years ago as a student, but his team was unsure it had found the right place. He says: "It was a bit enigmatic. It's a few stones. Even reports in the 1930s described it as very damaged."
Mr Edwards says the Bradup site could not strictly be called a 'stone circle' but was more likely a prehistoric burial ground. He believes his council predecessors liaised with British Gas to ensure the pipeline avoided historic sites on Rombalds Moor.
British Gas spokesman John O'Grady says workmen laying the pipe in 1971 could not have damaged the stone circle because they worked within a strict 45-foot-wide corridor containing all their machinery. He says the original contractors' map shows the Bradup circle as 'remains', 100 feet south of the edge of their corridor.
But Mrs Simpson claims the only access from Ilkley Road to the construction site would have been from a farm gate on the other side of the stones. A direct route from the gate to the work site would have been across land occupied by the circle.’


It seems we have a couple of sites to choose from, and the blame for the destruction of the circle is far from definite.


Will the real Bradup circle please stand up?!
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Bradup is gone! by andy_h on Wednesday, 21 April 2004
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Condition: Knackered
Ambience: Blown
Access: Don't bother!

Visited here to investigate reports that the circle had been destroyed and yup, it's gone! A sad cluster of rocks heaved out and dumped near the style still bear JCB marks and the field in which the circle stood has been stripped down to the soil and is now grassed over.

This was a protected monument on the Scheduled Monuments Register and I'm sure the landowner can be prosecuted if the destruction was carried out without permission.

Local folklore also tells that a number of stones were taken from the circle to build the nearby Bradup Bridge.
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Re: Bradup by DavidRaven on Thursday, 26 February 2004
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Condition: Abysmal
Ambience: Gone
Access: Denied!

I've looked a few times but never managed to find this circle. It's not where it's shown on the 1: 25,000 O.S. map of the area. The details of it's mindless destruction have been noted before. Paul Bennett mentions it in his 'Old Stones of Elmet' and this webpage shows what may be the remains of the circle, albeit in a different position than it sat originally; http://www.sypeland.freeserve.co.uk/site89.htm

Doesn't it just make you a little bit ANGRY?! :-(
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    Re: Bradup by andy_h on Friday, 27 February 2004
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    Hi Vicky n' Dave,

    my info comes from people who have attempted to visit the area recently. Chris Collyer mentioned it had gone and I confirmed this with Paul Bennett.

    It always was quite a hard place to find as it was constructed of low boulders and was mostly overgrown. I visited the site some years ago and think I found it... but never really was totally sure, as there's a lot of glacial deposit boulders around that area.

    According to info, the area in which the circle stood has been cleared right back to the soil. I'll be back around those parts over Easter n' intend to go n' have a look for myself and will take pics.

    Andy
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Re: Bradup by Vicky on Thursday, 26 February 2004
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Hi Andy

Do you know where this was reported?

Cheers

Vicky
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