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<< Our Photo Pages >> Harland Moor Stone Circle - Stone Circle in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by kelpie on Saturday, 28 February 2004  Page Views: 13401

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Harland Moor Stone Circle
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Kirkbymoorside  Nearest Village: Gillamoor
Map Ref: SE6757592658  Landranger Map Number: 94
Latitude: 54.325034N  Longitude: 0.962506W
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
 5

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Chappers60 visited on 24th Nov 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Recent burn-off has revealed further stones - and arguably evidence for further circles in the immediate vicinity

kthdsn visited on 18th Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by kelpie : This circle consists of twelve edge-set boulders. It has a hollow in the centre thought to be a medieval ore-pit. To the south lies a cairn field and a stone that I believe to be an outlier to the circle. SE 67571 92656 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Embanked Stone Circle in Yorkshire

This circle consists of twelve edge-set boulders. It has a hollow in the centre thought to be a medieval ore-pit.

To the south lies a cairn field and a stone that I believe to be an outlier to the circle.
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Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by bec-zog : Harland Moor Circle (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by bec-zog (Vote or comment on this photo)

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 - Note: The above sketch is actually a graph plotted using the stones OS Coordinates as measured by my gps in April 2026. These coordinates are listed below, all have the prefix SE: Stone 1 – 67582 92652 Stone 2 – 67576 92650 Stone 3 – 67570 92651 Stone 4 – 67569 92652 Stone 5 – 67568 92654 Stone 6 – 67567 92656... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by TheCaptain : Plan of the circle taken from teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/a-stone-circle-hobs-heap-the-coal-mines-of-harland-moor-pt-1/ (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by bec-zog : Harland moor: dislodged stone (Vote or comment on this photo)

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Overall view looking westerly. Yellow arrows indicate either the stone itself or where not fully visible its location indicated by stick with barrier tape attached, numbering is as per uploaded sketch map. The two large stones I have just written the numbers 1 & 2 on the stones. The green arrow indicates a marker pole which is stuck in the ground at the western...

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Overall view looking northerly. Yellow arrows indicate either the stone itself or where not fully visible its location indicated by stick with barrier tape attached, numbering is as per uploaded sketch map. The two large stones I have just written the numbers 1 & 2 on the stones. The green arrow indicates a marker pole which is stuck in the ground at the wester...

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Eastern end of circle, viewed looking westerly, 22 April 2026. Stone numbering as per uploaded sketch map.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Eastern end of circle, viewed looking northerly, 22 April 2026. Stone numbering as per uploaded sketch map. The green arrow indicates a marker pole which though not visible in this view is stuck in the northern end of a mediaeval iron ore pit whose eastern end pretty much goes up to the circle bank

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – West face of stone 1, 27 April 2027

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stone 2, viewed looking south easterly, 27 April 2026.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – This view looking west was taken in July 2012 when the area was covered in deep heather with only the three stones indicated clearly visible.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Eastern end of circle, looking magnetic north (compass bearing ) from stone 2 to 11, 27 April 2026. The green arrow indicates a marker pole which is stuck in the ground at the western edge of the iron ore pit

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – South easterly part of the stone circle viewed looking south easterly, 27 April 2026.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stones 1 to 9, viewed looking westerly, 22 April 2026.Yellow arrows indicate either the stone itself or where not fully visible its location indicated by stick with barrier tape attached.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stones 2 to 9 , viewed looking westerly from nearby stone 2, 22 April 2026. Yellow arrows indicate either the stone itself or where not fully visible its location indicated by stick with barrier tape attached.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stones 3 to 9, viewed looking westerly, 27 April 2025. Stick with barrier tap attached indicates location of stone where not fully visible.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stone 3 at SE 67570 92651, 22 April 2026.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stone 4 in the foreground at SE 67569 92652, 22 April 2026 . It is viewed looking northerly with stones 11 and 12 also visible on the other side of the circle as indicated.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stones 5 to 8, viewed looking westerly, 27 April 2026.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stone 5 at SE 67568 92654, 22 April 2026

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 - Stone 6 at SE 67567 92656, 27 April 2026.

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 - Stones 7 and 8, 22 April 2026

Harland Moor Stone Circle
Harland Moor Stone Circle submitted by johndhunter : Stone Circle at SE 67575 92658 – Stone 7 at SE 67566 92658, 22 April 2026.

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Re: Harland Moor Stone Circle by johndhunter on Saturday, 09 May 2026
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Whenever I have visited this site in the past it has been heather covered, with usually only the two larger stones numbered 1 and 2 on my sketch map popping up above the heather, thus making it difficult to assess and understand its layout.

However on a recent visit in April 2026, heather burning had been carried out fairly recently leaving most of the circle clearly visible and though stones numbered 5 to 9 were not fully heather free they were at the edge of where the fire had stopped and visible to some extent and I could see the complete circle which I had never been able to on previous visits.

With the stones visible I took their gps OS grid reference readings and plotted them on a graph to create the uploaded sketch . However there is a big caveat regarding these readings, due to the inherent margin of error in my gps. Especially with the stones on the western side being close together this margin of error created anomalies. Consequently I returned a week later and took another set of readings some of which were several digits different from my first set of readings , as a result I compromised and where necessary used the average of the two sets of readings for each stone to plot the graph. These readings are listed below, all have the prefix SE:

Stone 1 – 67582 92652 Stone 2 – 67576 92650 Stone 3 – 67570 92651
Stone 4 – 67569 92652 Stone 5 – 67568 92654 Stone 6 – 67567 92656
Stone 7 – 67566 92658 Stone 8 – 67566 92660 Stone 9 – 67568 92662
Stone 10 – 67577 92664 Stone 11 – 67583 92664 Stone 12 – 67587 92660
Stone 13 - 67586 92658

Approximate centre of circle which records describe as 18m in diameter - 67575 92658
Centre of medieval iron ore pit which records describe as 3m in diameter – 67581 92658

Notes and Observations:
Stone 10 is not a circle stone as such (large, upright or fallen) but the top of a stone (size unknown but looks small) protruding from the circle bank. I included it in the sketch map because it helps show the shape of the circle.

Visually at the location itself, to my eye stones 4,5,6 and 7 appeared to be in a straight line.
Stones 11 and 12 looked to me, to be fallen stones.
Taking a compass bearing from Stone 2 in 2026 , magnetic north looks directly at stone 11.

The HERR record tell us that the circle wasn’t discovered until 1931, is either neolithic or bronze age, one proposal is that it was an enclosed cremation cemetery. The HE list entry just describes it as a prehistoric Stone Circle. However the NYMNPA HER No.2429 describes it as a bronze age embanked stone circle.

Sources:
A History of Helmsley, Rievaulx and District - edited by J. McDonnell, 1963. Page 389.
Spratt, D A , Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology of North East Yorkshire, BAR Series 104, (Revised to 1990). Pages 89 / 90 – This source says it has never been excavated.
HERR MONUMENT 59015
Historic England LIST ENTRY 1019599
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Re: Harland Moor by johndhunter on Friday, 08 May 2026
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Attention Admin: Could we please rename this site to Harland Moor Stone Circle or similar. it will make it a lot easier to give names to other stuff in this area which will also need Harland Moor in their title for them to have any meaning. Also accurate gps ten figure grid ref for this location is SE 67575 92658.
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A Stone Circle, Hob’s Heap & the Coal Mines of Harland Moor Pt 1. by Andy B on Tuesday, 26 December 2017
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A Stone Circle, Hob’s Heap & the Coal Mines of Harland Moor Pt 1.
https://teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/a-stone-circle-hobs-heap-the-coal-mines-of-harland-moor-pt-1/

Parts 2 and 3 here
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=47686#comments
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