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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Barrow Cemetery

Map Ref: NZ523030
Latitude: 54.419759N  Longitude: 1.195523W
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.
 4 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.
 5 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
 4

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PeterJMayhew visited on 19th Nov 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 The two barrows by the Three Lords Stone are the most rewarding of these features, retaining a heather covering and the stone itself. RB3 retains some kerb stones but is a bit eroded and a track has been driven right next to it.

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : This is a very basic sketch map (not to scale). The grid references given below are from my gps. The legend for the map is as follows: RB1 – Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986. The Three Lords’ Stone boundary stone is one of its kerb stones RB2 – Round Barrow at NZ 52379 03002 RB3 – Round Barrow at NZ 52408 03134 RB4 – Round Barrow at NZ 52148 03170 Modern Stone Circle at N... (Vote or comment on this photo)
The site consists of at least three small round barrows one of which is a cairn circle with some large prominent stones. There are a couple of standing stones at the site as well.

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Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by PeterJMayhew : 19th November 2023. Kerb stones on the top of RB3 include an interesting water feature. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by PeterJMayhew : RB3 stands apart from RB1 and RB2. It has kerb stones on top but the track driven alongside partly cuts across the edge of the barrow. There is no view and the mound is covered in grass. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by PeterJMayhew : RB2, next to RB1, has a good ambience. 19th November 2023. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by PeterJMayhew : This is RB1, right by the Cleveland Way and the road, with the Three Lords Stone. It's the best of the local sites. 19th November 2023. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : An overview of the whole area taken from Carlton Bank, May 2019. With Industrial Teesside and Rosebery Topping on the skyline in the distance. The town in front of Industrial Teesside is Stokesley. The round barrows in the Lord Stones area are as indicated.

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : An overview of the Lord Stones Country Park descending from Carlton Bank, May 2019.The villages in the immediate distance in front of Roseberry Topping are Kirby and Great Broughton. The town on the extreme left of the image is Stokesley. The round barrows are as indicated. RB4 is not visible in this view it is hidden by the spoil from the old Alum Works on the left of the image. The yellow circl...

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 - Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986 – Viewed looking easterly, August 2013. The large kerb stone in the centre of the image is on the northern perimeter of the barrow. It acts as a boundary stone and is known as the Three Lords’ Stone

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 - Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986 – Viewed looking southerly, August 2013. The large kerb stone acts as a boundary stone and is known as the Three Lords’ Stone

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 - Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986 – Viewed looking north westerly, April 2019. This view shows another large kerb stone on the south east perimeter of the barrow. The stone visible on the other side of the barrow is the Three Lords’ Stone

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 – Three Lord’s Stone – Easterly face of the kerb / boundary stone, May 2019. It looks like there may have been an inscription on it at one time but is now no longer legible, I also noticed cup marks on the other side of the stone. The stone is so named after the three Lords whose estate boundaries met at the stone, they were Lord Marwood of Busby Hall, Lord Aislesby who had land to the s...

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 - Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986 – Viewed looking towards Carlton Bank, May 2019. The large kerb stone on the right acts as a boundary stone and is known as the Three Lords’ Stone

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 - Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986 - Viewed looking westerly, May 2109

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 - Round Barrow at NZ 52364 02986 - This is the same view as that uploaded (Picture ID 116557) by Bladup in Jan 2014, though I believe the image itself to be from am earlier date. This image dates from May 2019 and the same as Bladups image it shows the kerb / boundary stone known as the Three Lords Stone in the foreground. However the stone in the background which Bladup calls an outlier i...

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : Outlier at about NZ 52403 03008 - This is the stone which Bladup calls an outlier on his uploaded image (Picture ID 116557) It is now fenced off and is slowly being obscured by a young growing wood.

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB2 – Round Barrow at NZ 52379 03002 – Viewed looking north easterly, May 2019

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB2 Round Barrow at NZ 52379 03002 – Viewed looking northerly, May 2019

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB2 – Round Barrow at NZ 52379 03002 – Viewed looking north easterly, August 2013

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB2 – Round Barrow at NZ 52379 03002 – Viewed looking easterly, August 2013

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB2 – Round Barrow at NZ 52379 03002 – Viewed looking westerly, May 2019

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB1 & RB2 – Both barrows viewed looking toward Carlton Bank, May 2019

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB3 – Round Barrow at NZ 52408 03134 – Viewed looking northerly, August 2013

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB3 – Round Barrow at NZ 52408 03134 – Viewed looking northerly, May 2019

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB3 – Round Barrow at NZ 52408 03134 – Viewed looking westerly, May 2019

Lord Stones Cairn Circle.
Lord Stones Cairn Circle. submitted by johndhunter : RB3 – Round Barrow at NZ 52408 03134 – Viewed looking towards Cringle Moor, August 2013

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Lord Stones Cairn Circle, Three Lords’ Stone, RB1 & RB2 by johndhunter on Monday, 20 May 2019
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I am not quite sure in what context the term Cairn Circle is being used in the site name, I presume it is referring to the couple of large kerb stones visible at the round barrow at NZ 52364 02986, this is RB1 in the uploaded sketch map. One of these stones on the north west perimeter has been utilised as a boundary stone and is known as the Three Lords’ Stone. Also in the site description it says there are a couple of standing stones in the area, I myself am not aware of any though there are some large boundary stones. What I do know is in the area I have shown on the uploaded sketch map.

RB1 & RB2 on the uploaded sketch map are round barrows at NZ 52364 02986 and NZ 52379 03002 respectively they are Historic England List Entry Number 1008855 which tells us that RB2 is a well defined earth and stone mound standing 0.7m high. It is round in shape and is 15m in diameter. Three large stones are exposed on the northern side of the mound. (I could not see any – April 2019) It also tells us that RB1 has a large well defined mound standing 0.75m high. It is round in shape and is 12.5m in diameter. A number of large kerb stones surrounding the mound are visible. One of these, the Three Lords' Stone, has a number of cup marks, of prehistoric date, incised upon it. Pastscape also has information on these two barrows at Monument No.27476. Additional information provided by Pastscape tells us that there are 11 kerb stones around the perimeter of RB1 (is this the cairn circle referred to in the site name?). The source of this information was the Field Investigators comment in 1962. When I visited in 2019 I could only see 2 obvious large ones, though there are others, not so large and now overgrown.

A regards the Three Lords’ Stone, the kerb stone utilised as a boundary stone, it is so named after the three Lords whose estate boundaries met at the stone, they were Lord Marwood of Busby Hall, Lord Aislesby who had land to the south in Scugdale and Lord Duncombe of Helmsley.
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Further information on Lord Stones Cairn Circle - RB3, RB4, Modern Stone Circle by johndhunter on Monday, 20 May 2019
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RB3 – on the uploaded sketch is a round barrow at NZ 52408 03134, this is Historic England List Entry Number 1008854 which tells us that it is a well defined earth and stone mound standing 0.5m high. It is round in shape and is 10m in diameter. Also it tells us that on the top of the mound two large stones (actually there are three) lie exposed. These are covered in grooves and hollows, but these are considered to be the product of natural erosion rather than artificial carvings. Pastscape also has information on this barrow at Monument No.27479 and further tells us that the three recumbent boulders on top of the mound possibly formed a central cist now exposed.

RB4 – on the uploaded sketch is a round barrow at NZ 52148 03170, it is in a very prominent position with extensive all round views overlooking the Tees Plain. It is is Historic England List Entry Number 1008856 which tells us that it is a well defined earth and stone mound standing 1.2m high. It is round in shape and is 21m in diameter. Pastscape also has information on this barrow at Monument No.27482 though its measurements differ to Historic Englands in that it describes the barrow as being 18m in diameter and 1m high.

Modern Stone Circle – on the uploaded sketch map at NZ 52533 03268 is a very modern stone circle, built about 2013. It is more of a semi circle comprising of five stones. It has its own site page which can be viewed HERE

Hall Cliff Stone shown on the sketch map is a large boundary stone at NZ 52473 03234 and has its own site page which can be viewed HERE

Stone - The stone shown on the sketch map near RB1 & RB2 is now in a fenced off area with a young wood growing in front of it slowly obscuring it. Its grid reference will be about NZ 52403 03008. This large stone does not show up on old OS maps, consequently I am sceptical of its origins.
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Re: Lord Stones Cairn Circle. by Runemage on Sunday, 19 May 2019
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Sorry John, Mea Culpa.
I don't know what happened there either, I just copied your post straight into the sitepage, then deleted your comment.

Yes, please, if you could submit it again that would be great. Possibly split it into two separate comments?
The reason for asking for two is that it was truncated at the word 'barrow' in the last sentence and the active link to 'read more of this post' was a 404, so I (wrongly) assumed the missing info was a pastscape link.
I'll make sure it's correct.


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    Re: Lord Stones Cairn Circle. by johndhunter on Monday, 20 May 2019
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    Yes I will split it into two parts and submit them through the add a description button.
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      Re: Lord Stones Cairn Circle. by johndhunter on Monday, 20 May 2019
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      Looks like I havent split it quite right all the links gobblygook put me off a bit , hope this will be ok
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        Re: Lord Stones Cairn Circle. by Andy B on Monday, 20 May 2019
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        Hello, I think this extended information (which is excellent by the way) is best kept in the 'comment' section. This is the same as 'Add a description' in any case. Putting it on the main page pushes the photos too far down. Thanks
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        Re: Lord Stones Cairn Circle. by johndhunter on Monday, 20 May 2019
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        My original comment since deleted was that a comment be made in the description referring to the fact that I had provided further information in the comments section so that it wasn't missed .

        However since the sketch map I uploaded has now been placed as the main picture next to the description I am of the view that if my comment (keeping the layout the same with line breaks) was placed in the description you can than refer what you are reading to the sketch map
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          Re: Lord Stones Cairn Circle. by johndhunter on Monday, 20 May 2019
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          Hadn't realised that you had already changed it - thats ok as long as people are aware the information is available
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