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Pav
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|  New Message Posted!2012-10-14 22:07
Hi Dean,
Yep, you're right, 'fake' is the wrong word. In fact, not knowing why they built it, I couldn't describe it as anything but a 'modern stone circle'.
Pav
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| New Message Posted!2012-09-05 12:48
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On 2012-05-29 20:44, Sunny100 wrote:
The nearest stone circle I can find is on Summerhouse Hill at Yealand Conyers, North Lancashire at 54.162 N, 54.1627N, 54.1620 N. I think the circle you have spotted is a fake. Perhaps done by a farmer/landowner who like this sort of thing. And as you say its not on the Os map. But, you never know I might be wrong.
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i know its a matter of semantics, but i believe that circles built in modern times are built for the same reasons that they have always been built and therefore i dont think any circle is 'fake'. to build a circle takes a great deal of time and effort (i tried once  )..its not a light hearted undertaking
warmest regards, dean
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2012-07-15 23:09
Thanks, that site's now added.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=31744
Now click on the 'submit an image' link at the top right of that page. You'll need to resize the images down to about 750 x 500 first though.
Cheers
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| New Message Posted!2012-07-15 20:06
Added an entry, but couldn't stick the images in. Err, help? 
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2012-07-15 13:56
I've just seen you gave the location at the top - thanks, this converts to grid ref:
SD 60086496 via http://nearby.org.uk
If someone could put together a page for this site I'd appreciate it, we have all the info needed.
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| New Message Posted!2012-07-15 13:53
Hello, to add the site can you put in a few details here
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/submitsite.php
The main thing we need is the OS map ref. Then we can add the photos to that page - thanks
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| New Message Posted!2012-07-15 00:18
Reporting back. As TheCaptain said, it is a folly beyond any doubt: most stones have square holes in them, some have metalwork, hinges or something, in them. The iron isn't very rusty, and one has something that looks like anodizing on it. In other words, all nine stones are gate posts. Not fresh - the ground looks like they've been there for a while, so I would wild-guess thirty years?
The photos are from last Friday - looks like the thing's been incorporated into the Pendle witch trail (or was it built for it? I don't know). One would wonder who'd bother about such a thing, but two last photos are from around Ingleborough on the same day, so it would appear that farmers like doing things other than farming, too
Mods, I'm terribly sorry for being an IT numpty (took me half an hour to figure out how to add images to a message), could you add the photos to the database, or tell me how to do it?
Thanks,
Pav
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| New Message Posted!2012-05-30 13:05
Yep, found the article. The Liverpool bibs have the date wrong - it's 1972, not 76.
But anyway. The cairn seems to be a former farmstead with the farmer buried in the middle of it along with some Beaker pottery and flint scrapers. There are a few secondary burials off-center. Nothing from the Iron Age or Roman (some pot out of context for the latter, but the local occupation is concentrated 200 m to the south from there). The cairn is in the middle of a larger stone age complex.
Photos to follow.
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| New Message Posted!2012-05-29 22:31
@The Captain - Looks like it.
@Andy: here's another one for you, a ring cairn/barrow at Levens Hall in southern Cumbria on the Kent.
Very clearly visible on Google Earth at 54°16'7.62"N, 2°45'41.01"W.
There's some more info here:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/archaeology/arf/documents/PREHISTORICASSESSMENT.pdf
This one: Sturdy, D. 1976. A ring cairn in Levens Park. Scottish Archaeological Forum 4, 52-61., should be in our library, I'll pop in tomorrow to take a look.
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| New Message Posted!2012-05-29 22:29
Please post us up a site page if you can get some photos - we like modern circles as well. Good find!
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