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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Danby Rigg Cairn With Standing StoneCountry: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Guisborough Nearest Village: Ainthorpe
Map Ref: NZ70800656 Landranger Map Number: 94
Latitude: 54.449513N Longitude: 0.909624W
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| 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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Anne T visited on 2nd Jul 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Danby Rigg Ring Cairn with Standing Stone, North Yorkshire: Of all the sites on Danby Rigg, this was the one I wanted to see most of all, especially after seeing the photos on the Portal, and I wasn't disappointed, although rather than a stone circle, I found a ring cairn with standing stone. The views to the west to Danby Dale and Little Fryup Dale were lovely on this cloudy, but warm, afternoon.
I was very aware of being in a very ancient landscape and there appeared to be many cairns popping out of the ground (where the heather had been burnt away) and vegetation covered low mounds everywhere.
The cairn is recorded on Pastscape (Monument ID 28809) and also Historic England, where the whole Danby Rigg landscape is recorded 'en masse'. The latter says: "The northernmost, which incorporates a standing stone, was excavated by Atkinson in 1863 and re-excavated in 1986-89. At the centre of the ring cairn there was a 1.7m by 1.1m pit containing two Bronze Age cremation urns and a large quantity of burnt bone. The stones of the ring bank were uncovered but not removed during the excavation and further archaeological remains are expected to survive underneath."
There was a further way marker along the track to the west towards Danby Dale.
tlgreen visited on 30th Mar 2010 - their rating: Cond: 2 Access: 3
Andy B have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Access: 3
This late Bronze Age ring cairn with standing stone sits within a much larger, predominantly Bronze Age landscape, and are recorded as Pastscape Monument ID 28809. The standing stone is described as being 'well weathered, nearly 6ft high set admidst a large group of small stoney barrows ... though much defaced by a well used trackway the bank is still visible."
The record goes onto say: "The cairn was excavated by Atkinson in 1863 and re-excavated in 1986-99. At the centre of the ring cairn there was a 1.7 metres by 1.1 metre pit containing two Bronze Age cremation urns and a large quantity of burnt bone. The ring cairn itself is 9.5 metres in diameter and was originally formed by a earth and stone ring bank 3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. This ring bank is well preserved on the eastern arc, but elsewhere is reduced to a narrow spread of stone. The standing stone is one of a number of waymark stones which mark the medieval footpath, one of two across the rigg, from Slate Hill at the head of Little Fryup Dale to Ainthorpe."
More information on the whole of the Danby Rigg Bronze Age landscapes and monuments can be found on Historic England List Entry 1018782.
Another way marker stone sits further along the trackway to the west.
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