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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ring Stones HillCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Nelson Nearest Village: Catlow
Map Ref: SD89263693 Landranger Map Number: 103
Latitude: 53.828521N Longitude: 2.164653W
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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Ring Stones Hill is situated 1 mile E of the village of Catlow near Nelson. This pre-historic site once had a stone circle, but in the 19th century the recumbent stones were taken up and used in the construction of local walls and farm buildings. Today no trace can be found of the circle, apart from one or two solitary stones close to Ring Stones Farm together with a burial mound or barrow, which could have links to nearby Knave Hill and also Walton Spire.
This site is also featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Ring Stones Hill, Catlow, Nelson, Lancashire. TNA reports:"Set in good landscape with fine views in most directions, it seems that the only thing that remains of this site is a place-name on a map—but I have to say that our search here was only a short one, and so more may be found hiding away in field walls or beneath the ground. However, if we listen to an early account of the place, it was said to have “completely gone by 1856.” A pity, as it was described as being “a large circle of stones.” The monument was used for repairing the nearby road and, in another account, we are told that the stones were added to the walls. Whether this was a cairn circle or a free standing stone circle isn’t known. The prevalence of tumuli close by at Catlow, Burwains, etc, would suggest a cairn circle, yet we have no accounts of human remains here… A puzzle."
The site is also mentioned in Pastscape Monument No. 887155, which has a simple entry saying: "(at) SD 89263693 Ringstone Hill II - small mound 3m diameter, on shoulder of hill at 975ft OD, SD 891367. [Ringstone Hill I is the possible stone circle]."
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for Ring Stones Hill, Catlow, Nelson, Lancashire, which includes a photograph of the site of the stone circle, together with a photograph of large recumbent stones near Ring Stones Hill. The Journal refers to 'Historic Walks Around The Pendle Way' (1990) by John Dixon and Bob Mann which say the circle was dismantled when the present (farm) barn was built".
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