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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Robin Hood's Penny Stone (Wainstalls)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.49 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Wainstalls
Map Ref: SE04632870
Latitude: 53.754644N Longitude: 1.93126W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Yorkshire (West)
"Robin Hood's Penny Stone, said to have been surrounded by a stone circle, was broken up for building purposes. It was situated by the road to Luddenden. Today, no vestige of stone or circle survives.
Listed by Barnatt, in his gazetteer of stone circles, as a site about which too little is known to be certain whether a genuine stone circle existed. " For more information read: Pastscape Monument 47704.
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this now destroyed stone circle - see their entry for Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, Wainstalls, West Yorkshire, which features a drawing from 1775, an image of the 1852 showing the location of the stone circle, a brief description and local folklore.
TNA adds: "All remains of this site, first mentioned as a stone circle in 1836, have gone. The place could be found by the appropriately named Stone Farm at the top end of Wainstalls and was first mentioned by John Watson (1775), who strangely said nothing about any circle here. However, this changed when John Crabtree (1836) arrived and described a ring of stones surrounding a large boulder in the centre (illustrated here). The boulder itself was actually called the Robin Hood Penny Stone."
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