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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Blakeley Raise Alternative Name: Kinniside Stone Circle
Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Egremont  Nearest Village: Ennerdale Bridge
Map Ref: NY06011403  Landranger Map Number: 89
Latitude: 54.512826N  Longitude: 3.453298W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 4 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
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Blakeley Raise
Blakeley Raise submitted by DavidHoyle : View looking north east. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Blakeley Raise is a beautiful little stone circle on the edge of the Western Lakeland Fells. It has been sympathetically restored and with excellent views, this is one of the easiest of the Cumbrian circles to access sitting right by the roadside. Locally known as Kinniside Stone Circle, this circle used to be omitted from Ordnance Survey maps. The reason seems to be that at the time of the early surveys, the stone circle was non-existent, the stones - all 12 of them - having long been taken by a local farmer for use as gateposts and building materials. Look at the photos for how they came back!

Not long after the First World War, a restoration job was accomplished by a working party. Having cleaned out and measured the sockets in the ground in which the stones were originally set,they searched for and located-the original twelve stones,and completely restored the site. Today the circle is exactly as it was when first laid out, thousands of years ago.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by JanF : Kinniside Stone Circle, Cumbria UK. My wife Cher stands in the middle of the stone circle with arms outstretched. Exactly a year later she is diagnosed with an aggressive cancer of the breast. She died on 28th October 2009.. She loved Kinniside Stone Circle.. (9 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Postman : 09.04am 21st Sept 2019 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Bladup : Blakeley Raise stone circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by LivingRocks : A low camera angle makes the stones of Blakeley raise look larger than they really are. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Horatio : Whilst at this site a herd of wild horses came across and stood amongst us (people) and the stones but not before using near enough every stone as a rubbing post. At one stage there was a horse having a scratch on every stone bar 1. At least the circle will diminish in height 'equally' over the next few hundreds of years. I have several photos of horses rubbing themselves on the stones but this o...

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Postman : Looking west-ish, for me the best view of Blakeley Raise, especially since the trees have gone.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Postman : Zooming through the stones to the distant Fells. (1 comment)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by AngieLake : The nearby Ennerdale Water, well worth a visit if you are looking for Blakeley Raise circle.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by nicoladidsbury : Blakeley Raise Stone Circle with the snow encrusted fellside of Blakeley Raise behind. (4 comments)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by nicoladidsbury : Blakeley Raise Stone Circle. This photo was taken from the road below the circle, and shows a strange stone and earth embankment running across the photo just below the skyline.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by nicoladidsbury : Blakeley Raise Stone Circle. A beautiful little stone circle on the edge of the Western Lakeland Fells. A bitterly cold day, with the sun low in the West, and the remainder of the recent snows lying around. (1 comment)

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Blakeley Raise submitted by threlkeld : Not long after the First World War,a restoration job was accomplished by a working party. Having cleaned out and measured the sockets in the ground in which the stones were originally set,they searched for and located-the original twelve stones,and completely restored the site. Today the circle is exactly as it was when first laid out,thousands of years ago.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by threlkeld : Locally known as Kinniside Stone Circle. This circle used to be omitted from Ordnance Survey maps. The reason seems to be that at the time of the early surveys,the Kinniside Stone Circle was non-existent,all stones (12 of them) having long been taken by a local farmer for use as gateposts and building materials. Look at next photo for how they came back!

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Colin McCallien : Blakeley Raise Stone Circle. As the ground is fairly level it is impossible to get a shot that looks down on the circle so the best one can do is take a wide flat shot like mine.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Horatio : Just a study in B&W of these lovely stones

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Horatio : This is one of my favourite circles in the lakes, especially on days like this. And spitting distance from the car, you don't even have to get out of it to view the stones even, it's that close.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Horatio : This is just one of several Bronze Age monuments that can be found on this open moor overlooking Egremont. Several settlements and burial cairns were built further up the hill next to the river Calder, a source of fresh water that was likely the reason people settled here.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Horatio : Kinniside aka Blakeley Raise stone circle as its situated under Blakely Raise Fell. Kinniside is a reconstructed stone circle, as evidenced by its loving nickname 'Fakeley Raise Stone Circle.

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Blakeley Raise submitted by Antonine : Photo taken in 2011

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Re: Blakeley Raise by Andy B on Tuesday, 16 January 2018
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Pastscape says: Site of a stone circle. It currently features 11 small stones of local granite, and features a possible cairn at its centre. The circle was apparently "dismantled" in the 18th century by the farmer (the farm then being known as Standing Stones Farm), who re-used the stones as gate-posts. Restoration was apparently undertaken by a Dr Quine in 1925, who set the stones in concrete. Whether he used the original stones, and whether or not he erected them in their original stone holes, is unclear.
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The ring of eleven small stone of local granite has a possible cairn at its centre. (See plan 3). There is a strong local tradition that this is a fake monument. The stones are set in concrete and may have been erected on a site of 'standing stones' by Quine in 1925. Quine speaks on of "partial restoration" (a), which suggests that many of the stones are in their original positions. Alternatively, another report says the ring originally consisted of
13 stones, 8 of which were removed, and it was these stones which Quine replaced
Source: A Thom and A S Thoms; collated, with archaeological notes by A Burl 1980 Megalithic rings : plans and data for 229 monuments in Britain
British Archaeological Report (BAR) 1974

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=8812
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Re: Blakeley Raise by AngieLake on Monday, 20 March 2006
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Hi MickM
'Wainwright in the Valley of Lakeland' was first published in Great Britain in Sept 1992, and first published in Mermaid Books in 1996. (Mine's a Mermaid Books copy). The ISBN is 0718134885
Michael Joseph Ltd., Published by the Penguin Group, is also on the credits. There's no link to his source of info.
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Re: Blakeley Raise by MickM on Monday, 20 March 2006
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According to Burl, the site was restored in 1925 by Dr Quine who described it as a partial restoration & another report suggests that eight (of an original thirteen stones) were retrieved from a gate for the restoration. This would suggest that three stones remained in place when Dr Quine arrived. What date is the Wainwright quote?
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Re: Blakeley Raise by Thorgrim on Monday, 20 March 2006
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My money is on AW. I can't find it on Magic Map and Pastscape just says "A stone circle, probably surrounding a cairn, said to be on Blakeley Raise. This is almost certainly the restored circle NY 00 SE 6 on Blackeley Moss." Anyone got any more information?

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Re: Blakeley Raise by AngieLake on Monday, 20 March 2006
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In 'Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland' (Mermaid Books), the late, great fell-walker, country lover, and author says:
"....the Kinniside Stone Circle alongside the road attracts attention: I could never understand why it was not indicated on the maps of the Ordnance Survey, usually so meticulous about antiquities, until reading that it was a fake, put there by a local schoolmaster and his pupils to emulate the works of their ancient forebears."
If Nicola's and Threlkeld's info is correct, I wonder who told Mr. A. Wainwright this story?
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