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Submitted by DavidRaven on Wednesday, 22 December 2004  Page Views: 11945

Multi-periodSite Name: Catstones Ring Alternative Name: Blood Dykes
Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Keighley  Nearest Village: Harden
Map Ref: SE0680638145
Latitude: 53.839512N  Longitude: 1.898054W
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
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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.
 3 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
 5

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drolaf visited on 21st Jun 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 good vantage point over the valley

Catstones Ring
Catstones Ring submitted by DavidRaven : The earthwork that straddles Harden Moor, West Yorks. Showing the banks and ditch where they leave the moorland and enter pasture. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Misc. Earthwork in West Yorkshire

A curious feature of the moors near Harden, West Yorkshire. The earthwork covers almost sixteen acres and can barely be discerned, especially the part that lies on the moorland. The remnants of extensive quarrying also makes it difficult to follow the path of the banks.
It's hard to find much information about this site. Perhaps future excavations will enlighten us!

Update May 2017: Further information on Catstanes Ring (aka Blood Dykes) can be found on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Catstones Ring, Harden, West Yorkshire, which includes directions for finding the site from Keighley together with an image of the Ring on the 1852 OS-map and a brief archaeology and history.

Pastscape Monument No. 47871 tells us: "the enclosure at Catstones Ring is visible on air photographs ..... the western side is visible as a cropmark ditch, but the north-western corner although ploughed, still survives as a slight earthwork . The north, eastern and part of the southern sides, comprising a bank and outer ditch, survives as earthworks. Inside the enclosure is a small (11m) circular embanked enclosure (centred at SE 0680 3813), which may be associated with it and of contemporary date. The outwork to the north ..... is visible as a cropmark, showing just the northern and eastern sides of the ditched enclosure (centred at SE 0685 3830). The exact relationship with the larger quadrangular enclosure is uncertain. Other Iron Age enclosures are recorded in the area (SE 03 NE 13) and their inter relationship and visibilty from one another in the landscape suggests Catstones Ring may also be Iron Age rather than Roman."

Historic England List Entry 1018240 also has more information.
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Catstones Ring
Catstones Ring submitted by rich32 : The Catstones Ring nr Harden, West Yorks – SE0681638112 I must admit, I wasn’t expecting much from this site, but was pleasantly surprised. It’s not much of a ring, as the name suggests, but more rectangular in shape if anything. It measures 300meters x 225meters and has a bank & outer ditch in varying states of preservation.. An excavation in 1962 revealed little detail about its ... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Catstones Ring by drolaf on Sunday, 25 June 2017
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Access: park in the long layby on Rycroft road by quarry. Just a short walk SE down the road and there is an old path to the SW, and the enclosure is just 300m along, on the right. A very pleasant walk.

The enclosure is sited on the SW slope of Hunter hill: a short walk to the top of the hill gives wide long distance views apart from to the NE top of Harden moor itself. Good views over to Overton, Oxenhope, Baildon moor, and Rivock edge, and the Bradley tops beyond to the NW on a clear day.

A visit is a good excuse to explore the top of Harden moor which is ex quarry open access, now a nature reserve, and gives a good feel for the ambience of Catstones and its relationship to Harden top and the surrounding valleys.
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