<< Our Photo Pages >> Bleaberry Haws - Stone Circle in England in Cumbria
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bleaberry Haws Alternative Name: Bleaberry HawesCountry: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Coniston Nearest Village: Torver
Map Ref: SD26449466 Landranger Map Number: 96
Latitude: 54.342163N Longitude: 3.132998W
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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The stone behind the circle is NE of those aligned, on mound 2 while the one on the extreme left in the mid-distance is part of the stone circle - Coniston Old Man alignment. Note the flat-topped hillock which hides the circle.
Access: A hard, steep walk from Torver.
For more information see Pastscape Monument No. 38813 which describes this as 'not a true circle, its length being 17ft and its width being 13ft)."
They add: "On top of the hill close to the rampart is ...a little circle, or rather ovate ring of seven stones, 17 feet in diameter from north to south, and 13 feet from east to west. There is a gap of the NW side, and the circle may here have been completed by one or more stones, but if so no sign of them exists. The stones are local and none more than a foot above ground. This circle I caused to be dug into, and a rough pavement of cobble stones was found at a depth of 2 or 3 feet, resting upon natural rock. Seven small, unhewn stones, embedded into the turf and forming a circle, lie upon a nearly level place, upon the gentle south-west facing slopes of BLEAVERRY HAW, at approximately 1060 feet above sea level. The stones, which stand to a maximum height of 0.4m are from 0.3m by 0.5m to 0.4m by 0.9m in size. There are no traces of an encircling ditch, or of a mound in the centre. This seems unlikely to be a stone circle in the accepted sense. The gap in the NW arc, and the 'cobbled pavement' discovered by Swainson-Cooper suggest rather that it represents the surviving orthostats of a stone-founded hut."
Note: Walk to the archaeological Sites at Bleaberry Hawes, Tue 20 July
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