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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Threepow Raise Ring Cairn Alternative Name: Moordivock Cairn J; Moor Divock Cairn J; JQ 80Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Penrith Nearest Village: Helton / Askham
Map Ref: NY4847721781
Latitude: 54.588581N Longitude: 2.798805W
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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Ring Cairn in Cumbria
Recorded separately from the Cockpit Cairns/Threepow Raise Cairn Cemetery, this ring cairn is recorded as Historic England List ID 1011588, 'Ring cairn east of Threepow Raise'.
Historic England tells us: "The monument is a ring cairn located on an area of Moor Divock east of Threepow Raise. It includes a ring bank of largely turf-covered stones 1.2m - 1.6m wide and up to 0.2m high; it has an external diameter of 19.5m. The ring bank forms 270 degrees of a circle; there is a wide entrance with ill-defined edges in the bank's northern quadrant."
The cairn, along with a smaller cairn (not recorded by HE), is also identified as monument 80 in Jamie Quartermaine's "Askham Fell Survey Catalogue", in which he describes it as: "A large, low, regular, circular stone bank, with small to medium stones protruding from turf. It is slightly prominent and is moderately defined, however there is a large gap in the northern quadrant (c. 90 degrees). The edges of this gap are very ill-defined which may be an indication that it was not an entrance. It is located in a fairly flat non-undulating area; the area within is fairly flat and is at a similar elevation to that outside. It is possibly a ring cairn".
"To the west of the ring-cairn is a possible round cairn (c.3.7 x 3.4m x 0.15m) with substantial turf cover, however apart from this it is totally isolated and remote. Size: diameter of whole c.19.5m width of bank 1.2m-1.6m height of bank 0.1m-0.2m".
For a link to Quartermaine's report see our generic Askham Fell site page.
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