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Photo Pages: Grey Croft - Stone Circle in England in Cumbria
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Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 14 June 2004 Page Views: 5928
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 Site Name: Grey Croft Alternative Name: Greycroft
Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Whitehaven Nearest Village: Seascale
Map Ref: NY034024 Landranger Map Number: 89
Latitude: 54.407852N Longitude: 3.489797W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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 Grey Croft submitted by HardcoreDave
I visited this site on 12th February 2006.
It's looking better than it has done but according to the sign, access to this site will end in 2014!
From sign:
"This access has been provided under the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' farm conservation schemes... It is permissive access and no new rights of way are being created. Existing rights of way are not affected. Please
 Grey Croft submitted by LivingRocks
A damaged stone at Grey Croft, I’m no expert on the rate of weathering of stone but the damage looks recent to me with only limited algal growth on the broken area, could this be frost damage or has something mechanical hit the stone?
 Grey Croft submitted by LivingRocks
What a life this one has had in the last couple of centuries, buried by a farmer in 1820, restored in 1949 only to find itself sat next to the Sellafield obscenity. Now it sits overgrown by weeds with the site of the central cairn covered in cow muck from where a cattle feeder has stood, on the seaward side masses of tractor tracks run into the circle & several of the stones seem to have recent da
 Grey Croft submitted by eeveyb
A 'grey' site indeed!!
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Re: Grey Croft (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 May 2005 | | eeveyb writes: We drove many miles to find this Circle of Stones , over the usual fences - farmers field - up to our ankles in glorious mud!! Our hearts dropped heavily when we reached our goal...in the centre of the circle was a rusty old hay cart, and the stones were obviously being used as rubbing posts . I supose the farmer just thinks that the Stones are taking up his agricultural land... and doesn't give a toss !! but there is no need for such disrespect..wouldn't you have thought the HERITAGE PEOPLE would take more of an interest to protect sites from neglect?? | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Grey Croft (Score: 1)
by JACKME on Tuesday, 14 February 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The nearest town is Whitehaven, and the nearest Village is Seascale. Site now much improved. | [ Reply to This ]
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