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<< Our Photo Pages >> Howes Well ring cairn - Ring Cairn in England in Cumbria

Submitted by Bladup on Friday, 24 May 2013  Page Views: 4440

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Howes Well ring cairn Alternative Name: Sunbiggin Tarn ring cairn
Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Kendal  Nearest Village: Orton
Map Ref: NY6804908373
Latitude: 54.469711N  Longitude: 2.494496W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 4

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Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by Bladup : Sunbiggin Tarn. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A circle of stones surrounding the possible stones of a cist, in a wonderful setting.
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Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : Sometimes Sunbiggin Tarn seems like the Centre of the Universe, and this a very suitable place to be buried.. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : Little more than 5m from the centre of the cairn is this one, a turf burial cairn (barrow?), identified as a burial site by Cherry & Cherry in Prehistoric Habitation of the Cumbrian Limestone Uplands. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : Most (all?) of the remaining stones are of Shap granite. A little careful "gardening" here would do no harm. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : In the centre two sides are clearly visible of the probable cist. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : From the south (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : I feel it's a good thing that grazing by farmed animals has been reduced here, but it's made it harder to see the stones.

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by SumDoood : 080720: Looking west. The two furthest stones make you think about an entrance, but I doubt there ever was such.

Howes Well ring cairn
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by HeronEye : Looking south towards Sunbiggin Tarn and the Howgills

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Re: Howes Well ring cairn by SumDoood on Friday, 10 July 2020
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NY679082 is incorrect and caused 3 of us to spend 2hrs looking for this site.

Correct is NY 6804908373 which can be reduced to NY680084.
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Re: Howes Well ring cairn by SumDoood on Sunday, 05 January 2020
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This site is bang on due east of Gamelands stone circle (just under 4kms away). And, for what it's worth, also based on remote calculations only, there's a close to accurate 3,4,5-ish triangle between this site, and Howes Well itself, and Mitchell's Stone.
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Re: Howes Well ring cairn by jopplanje on Thursday, 11 October 2018
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If I see the pictures and the description, the condition is not a 4

[amended to a 2, but let us know if you want this amending further. thanks. admin]
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