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aknifethatfellfromthesky
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|  Posted 26-08-2010 at 10:55
hi all, hope youre all well
....on my everlastin quest to visit all known extant stone circles in britain, yesterday i visited 'Bradup' on the south west of Ilkley Moor....sad to report that this circle is no more...speaking to the wonderful lady who lives in the lone house by the moor, apparantly the circle was destroyed by the gas board in the late 1960s whilst laying a pipe line, the stones just being scattered...3 cup and ring marked stones were subsequently moved a number of years later by the local farmer and are now to be found by the side of the brook in a straight line and are thankfully undamaged and easily recognisable....there is what appears to be at first glance a looted ring cairn a few meters from the position of bradup circle on the current OS map; unfortunately it is nothing more than an excavation by the farmer to provide soil to add to a dump nearby. sorry to be the bringer of bad tidings.
warmest regards, dean
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| Posted 26-08-2010 at 13:11
Hi Dean!
Very curious..... Rock art writer Graeme Chappell, holy wells writer Edna Whelan and myself were sat in the remains of the Bradup circle in the 1980s, during a break from a wander round Rivock, having a cuppa & having summat to eat. I went here a few times in the 1990s aswell, along with several other colleagues thru the years.
The story of the destruction of the Bradup Circle aint quite what the lady at the house told you. I keep meaning to do a full write-up about it all, as this site was finally destroyed thanks to local vandalism, lies and some totally dreadful fieldwork by some (unnamed) English Heritage fieldworkers who mistook a collection of rocks on one side of the fence from the remains of the circle on the other. Local EH officers reported the circle they looked at was just a natural collection of stones and not a prehistoric site, so the farmer ploughed the field over and uprooted the stones (now to be seen at the top of the field) and destroyed the embankment. A group of halfwits that call themselves 'Heritage Action' also got involved somewhere down the line, but I'm not sure what value - if any - their input would have been.
English Heritage got the wrong OS-grid reference for the Bradup site (or its remains as it was in the 1990s), and as a result of their evaluation their actions led directly to the destruction of the Bradup stone circle. I've a couple of letters from EH explaining it all, though no names of the "investigating officers" from English Heritage who visited & evaluated the site, despite me asking who they were. I'll publish their version of events in due course.
If anyone wants a copy of their version of events, email me & I'll send you it. But it's nowt more than a carefully worded - i.e. politically worded - version of EH's version of history, to divert any responsibility of the destruction of the Bradup site from them. Unless of course, the remains of the circle which numerous local people had visited in years gone by was some collective hallucination, and the circular ring-bank and its stones mere fables in the minds of the early archaeologists who described it and local folk who used to come here...
The final destruction of Bradup is down to the negligence or lack of archaeological training by some unnamed EH officers, aswell as the farmer who never liked seeing folk sitting in the circle in the middle of his field. Very sad indeed...
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aknifethatfellfromthesky
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| Posted 31-08-2010 at 12:21
hi brigantia, an all too familier tale me thinks.....can i ask therefore if the OS map places the circle in the right place? would you have an (approx) grid reference for the remaining stones? the lady in the house was non too pleased with the farmer, judging from some of her comments when i was speaking to her, apparantly she gets 'stick' from some circliers who think she's the said farmer! she did mention something about a possible reconstruction that was once mooted....how does one go about pertitioning for this sort of thing? regards, Dx
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| Posted 31-08-2010 at 19:35
Hi
The Devils Quoits in Oxfordshire have been reconstructed after being practically destroyed.
More here:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=852
There might be something on there that can point you in the right direction.
If local people are not happy with it's destruction maybe something can be done.
All the best.
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