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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | King Arthurs Round Table, nr Penrith, Cumbria.
A view from KART looking towards Mayburgh Henge. If you get a magnifying glass out and look just to the right of the national speed limit sign, you should be able to make out Mayburghs central stone.
Both sites are frequented by Hengecows.
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| Posted Comments: Gem
(2005-11-30) | this site has intrigued me for a long time. went to mayburgh henge one day and felt light-headed as i walked round the central standing stone. it unnerved me but i'm keen to go back some time! | AngieLake
(2005-12-01) | Mmmm... I've not seen this pic before, but am I right in thinking that the darker blue shape behind the trees to the right of Mayburgh Henge's central stone is a distant mountain, whose summit would be almost perfectly framed in the dip of the henge's bank when viewed from a little to the left of this point? At that angle the stone might line up with the distant summit too. If those trees weren't there it would be more obvious. Perhaps it's a sight-line to the Midsummer Sunset? | thecaptain
(2005-12-01) | if you were stood to the left, to get the distant hill into the centre of the gap, the central stone would appear to be further over to the right, and not move in to the alignment.
Nice cows. | AngieLake
(2005-12-01) | Yes, but the stone is far to the left of the mountain's summit now, so wouldn't they line up? (Yes, I heard rich32 is plagued by hengecows!)
Rich - we need your opinion! | AngieLake
(2005-12-01) | Perhaps I should rephrase that : "Yebbut - No-but, Yebbut!" | thecaptain
(2005-12-01) | Indeed. Yeah, butnobutyeahbutno. Perhaps what I thought was the central stone is in fact something else. | rich32
(2005-12-11) | Angie, that picture is taken looking west, so that could well be one of those lovely Cumbrian hills peeking above the central stone. It’s a pity I didn’t read this before, because I was up here 2 days ago & could have checked. I do find the 3 henges in this area interesting, because non have entrances pointing in the same direction, Mayburgh W, KART SE – NW & Little Round Table NNE, 2 have ditches & 1 doesn’t. | AngieLake
(2005-12-11) | It's not Blencathra again, is it? There's a westerly alignment to it from Long Meg, I'm sure, though she and her Daughters are more to the east and north of KART. If you're sure this is a westerly view it might be interesting to see what happens in this position at sunset on one of the equinoxes??? | stonesavant
(2010-11-05) | Almost all of these sites were part of a beacon signalling system. |
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