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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Blakey Topping
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Scarborough
Map Ref: SE87199338  Landranger Map Number: 94
Latitude: 54.328552N  Longitude: 0.660786W
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.
 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.
 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
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TheCaptain visited on 14th Sep 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Walk from Saltergate layby above the Hole of Horcum along Old Wife's Way to Newgate Foot and up to Blakey Topping and it's stone circle. One six foot standing stone and a stump in the field, with another stone standing at the gate, a flat stone in the field, and a couple of wooden posts. Is that another stone in the hedge I see?

TheWhiteRider visited on 20th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 2

tlgreen visited on 4th Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Small stone circle, 2 stones remain upright, 2 flat on the ground, some obviously missing. The setting below Blakey Topping adds to the ambiance, as it is a hill with some air of mystery, that from certain angles does not look natural! Reached by public footpath from the pay & display car park at the Hole of Horcum, we had to walk about two miles to get there.

JimChampion have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 2.67

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Blakey Topping submitted by DavidRaven : The stones that sit in the shadow of Blakey Topping. (Vote or comment on this photo)
There are several standing stones at the bottom of the hill at a corner in a trackway.

Nearby, the ordnance survey map shows 2, possibly 3 cairns in alignment.
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Blakey Topping submitted by JimChampion : August 2007. The large standing stone with Blakey Topping looming beyond. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakey Topping submitted by JimChampion : August 2007. This stone is at the field gate, near to the larger standing stones to the south-west of Blakey Topping (just visible in the background). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024 looking northwest up the strangely shaped valley from the gateway. The stone standing at the gate with the stump in the field beyond. Other large chunks of stone can be seen in the hedges. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024 looking west from the gateway. One six foot standing stone and another stone standing at the gate, a flat stone in the field, and a couple of wooden posts. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : Blakey Topping (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blakey Topping submitted by tlgreen : Standing stones at the base of Blakey Topping. I think perhaps the stone in the foreground is upright on some previous pictures I have seen of this site, but now lies on its side next to what may be a half-buried base it has broken off from? (1 comment)

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Blakey Topping submitted by JimChampion : August 2007. The 'back' of the largest standing stone near Blakey Topping. The limestone is well-weathered.

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024. Viewed looking east here the site is seen from above Newgate Foot. The strangely shaped Blakey Topping hill on the left, the site of the circle is on the right at the gap in the hedge, with cattle wandering down the path below.

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024 looking south. The stump with the large standing stone and wooden posts beyond, with the standing stone at the gate.

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024 looking north in the field to the west of the hedge. One six foot standing stone and a stump in the field, with a flat stone and a couple of wooden posts.

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024 looking east through the gateway.

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain : Blakey Topping circle Sept 2024 looking north. One six foot standing stone and a stump in the field, with another stone standing at the gate, a flat stone in the field, and a couple of wooden posts.

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Blakey Topping submitted by TheCaptain

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : This was my third attempt to get here. first time was cut short by the distance from the car with waiting children and wife. Second attempt was thwarted by the local farmer and a policeman banging on about lock downs and pandemics, or some such like.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : Later in the day of the autumn equinox, 12.18pm to be precise.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : Proof that life isn't crap all the time.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : Big stone, fallen stone and gate posted stone.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : Big stone and small stone and the stone that I've charitably called the fallen stone.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : Big and small and hill

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : the tallest and the shortest, barring the flat stone.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : This stone hides in the hedge about twenty yards south of the circle.

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Blakey Topping submitted by Postman : High zoom from the track down to the farm

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Blakey Topping submitted by cavers35 : Thompson’s Rigg Cairn Cairn with Blakey Topping in the background grid reference 872 926

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Blakey Topping submitted by johndhunter : The view from the gatepost stone, looking towards Newgate Foot Farm, May 2018

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Blakey Topping submitted by johndhunter : Closer view of the smaller stone taken May 2018 looking towards the stone at the gatepost, indicated by the arrow. This the smaller stone is shown as recumbent on images prior to 2011.

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