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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: OddendaleCountry: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Penrith Nearest Village: Shap
Map Ref: NY59201291 Landranger Map Number: 91
Latitude: 54.509846N Longitude: 2.631652W
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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TheCaptain visited on 19th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 I now walk south along the trackway past the rough limestone pavement before heading out southwesterly across the open land to find the Oddendale circles. Quite hard to see at first, then they come into view, the stones hiding amongst the long grass. Upon closer inspection it is a really fabulous site, a large outer ring of big boulders surrounding a smaller ring with possible remains of a cist at the centre. There are several outlying stones around the large circle, some possibly forming an avenue to the northeast. Its lovely here with huge views all around and nobody else within sight. I spent quite a bit of time up here before heading back to the car and onwards to Penrith.
drolaf visited on 6th Aug 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 7th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Oddendales Stone Circle, Oddendale, Cumbria: From Seal Howe, heading directly north west across the pasture to the ‘cairn circle’ was interesting walking, as the ground was lumpy and bumpy with hidden stones underneath. I was not prepared for what we found – a beautiful stone circle of some 34 stones (if I counted correctly) with an inner circle that looked like it had been a cairn or inner mound.
I wish I had a wide-angled lens to capture the beauty of this stone circle in the landscape (if you can successfully ignore the scar of Hardendale Quarry in the background, which we did). Even with my husband perched on top of a nearby stone to get a higher angle, we couldn’t achieve the shot we wanted.
Nearby are also other large red granite stones that we thought might have formed an avenue (but we are quite imaginative people, and would love to have the skills to interpret the prehistoric landscape).
Walking back to the car by the hamlet of Oddendale (according to the Visit Cumbria website, not simply just a farm), the limestone pavement is impressive.
Driving onto Gamelands Stone Circle, it hit me how large the prehistoric landscape is around Shap, and how important an area it must have been in the past.
kthdsn visited on 9th Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
BolshieBoris visited on 1st Jul 1996 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
BolshieBoris visited on 1st Jan 1995 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 4.17 Access: 3.5
Limited antiquarian investigation of the central cairn located evidence of burning; scheduled."
Source: Pastscape Monument No. 11897
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