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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Iron Hill South Alternative Name: HarberwainCountry: England County: Cumbria Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Shap
Map Ref: NY59641476 Landranger Map Number: 91
Latitude: 54.526506N Longitude: 2.625111W
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: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Just to the south of the hilltop barrow can be seen a small circle of large boulders, with a few more in the centre which may once have formed a cist.
drolaf visited on 3rd Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 a very interesting site and location
Anne T visited on 7th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Iron Hill South Cairn/Stone Circle, near Oddendale, Cumbria: Just 50 metres south of Iron Hill North Cairn/Stone Circle there is another monument, not far from a limestone scar (small modern quarry or crag?). It can be easily seen from Iron Hill North.
Whilst we were looking at this monument, we could hear a party of walkers were coming down the hill towards us. With loud voices, one of the men was proclaiming ‘there’s a stone circle just over here’. Waving his GPS device as he approached us, we were quizzed about which was the cairn and which was the stone circle (both are marked as a cairn and a cairn circle on our OS map), then the walkers left without really taking a look. This amused me greatly, although I wished I had his GPS device.
I couldn’t make up my mind as to whether this was a cairn or another stone circle; instinct said ‘cairn circle’ as there was a grouping of stones in the centre.
After soaking in the atmosphere of this place, we left to go onto Oddendale hamlet, further south along the single track road, and effectively a dead end, to see Seal Howe cairn and the cairn circle nearby.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 3.67
There is no evidence that a relationship exists between this circle and the one to the N. The stones are quite prominent: the tallest is 4 feet. A low mound occupies the center, on top of which are 3 stones.
For more information see Pastscape Monument No. 11894 which tells us this is: "A sub-oval hummocky mound up to 0.3m high with maximum dimensions of 6m by 5m. There is a partial ring of seven rounded pink granite boulders, formerly part of a kerb that surrounded the mound, with two more similar boulders lying beyond the partial ring a short distance to the south-east. Four boulders scattered on top of the mound are thought to be part of a cist. Limited antiquarian investigation at this site located the bones of a man, part of a deer antler and animal bones; scheduled."
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