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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Banishead Stone Circle Alternative Name: Banishead
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Windermere
Map Ref: SD2846796700  Landranger Map Number: 96
Latitude: 54.360782N  Longitude: 3.102316W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 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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Banishead Stone Circle
Banishead Stone Circle submitted by MonumentMan : Looking 50degrees East across the Circle to outlying alignment stone. (Bag for scale on inner circle cairn mound 5mx0.3m) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Circle or Variant Ring Cairn in Cumbria

Near the Walna Scar Road 1.8km (1 1/8 miles) WSW of Coniston 245 m above sea level.
It's on the 1:50 000 map as an "Enclosure".

Update October 2019 from MonumentMan:
This site is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 38693, which describes it as: "(the) earthwork remains of a Bronze Age enclosed cremation cemetery or ring cairn".

It is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1007246, where it is called an 'Enclosure'. For a map of the location see: HE Scheduling Map

This visit to Banishead Stone Circle/variant Ring Cairn brings a more accurate handheld GPS position.

Also another un-recorded potential Stone Circle was found on Heathwaite How and is included in this submission due to its proximity (SD 28763 96672) and association with Banishead Circle.
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Banishead Stone Circle
Banishead Stone Circle submitted by MonumentMan : The Cloven Stone facing 50degrees East and some 50m distance from the Banishead Stone Circle. Aspect looking towards Coniston Water and the fells beyond. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Banishead Stone Circle
Banishead Stone Circle submitted by MonumentMan : Banishead Stone Circle showing stone arc at West of circle, note the stone slabs arranged on perimeter. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Banishead Stone Circle
Banishead Stone Circle submitted by MonumentMan : Looking West back towards the Circle from the outlying alignment stone which is a cloven stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Banishead Stone Circle
Banishead Stone Circle submitted by MonumentMan : Close up of inner Circle stone slab. Height 0.3m (Vote or comment on this photo)

Banishead Stone Circle
Banishead Stone Circle submitted by MonumentMan : Banishead Stone Circle/variant Ring Cairn, showing part of the inner circle stones looking S.W.

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Re: Banniside Stone Circle by MikeS on Thursday, 23 December 2021
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There is a fascinating link between the Stone Circle at Bannishead and the Winter Solstice.
If one stands behind the tallest stone of the circle on 21st December (on a clear day) and looks towards the Eastern horizon, it will be seen that the sun rises immediately behind a large rock on top of the moorland. That rock, about the size of an average chair, lying on its back, is quite solitary and appears to have been placed there deliberately. One can only imagine how the ancient Brits, who lived at Bannihead, may have taken several years to ascertain the precise spot to place that marker so that they would know when the annual solstice occurred. It took me a few years to establish it because of the cloud cover and/or fog that often obscured the skyline.
MikeS
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    Re: Banniside Stone Circle by Runemage on Thursday, 23 December 2021
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    Very interesting observation. Is this the stone you mean outside the circle, Mike?
    https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=204147

    Admin note - no idea why all the comments are headed Banniside when the site name is Banishead. The link to the old document, by KenMP on Friday, 18 October 2019, mentions 'Banniside Moor as the circle's location.

    "ART. XVIII.—An Exploration of the Circle on Banniside Moor, Coniston. By W. G. COLLINGWOOD, M.A., F.S.A. Read in part at Carlisle, April 15th, and in part on the Site, September 10th, 1909. D R. Alexander Craig Gibson, F.S.A., late of Coniston, wrote a sketch often quoted as a good example of the dialect of High Furness, under the title of The Bannasyde Cairns. "
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Re: Banniside Stone Circle by KenMP on Friday, 18 October 2019
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See 1910 article by WG Collingwood at https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1910/vol10/tcwaas_002_1910_vol10_0021.pdf
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    Re: Banniside Stone Circle by MonumentMan on Friday, 18 October 2019
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    Hello KenMP,
    Yes I understand the site was previously excavated and a cremation was found under the central cairn.
    I didn't however know that the slabs had been re-positioned upright at the west end. Thank you for this article.
    MM
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