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Multi-periodSite Name: St Ninian's Preconquest Monastery (Ninekirks)Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Penrith
Map Ref: NY5607129981
Latitude: 54.662986N Longitude: 2.682535W
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 |
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| 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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Anne T visited on 13th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 3 St Ninian's Pre-Conquest Monastic Site: See visit report for St Ninian's Church (Ninekirks) for now. More details to follow.
Historic England schedule this site as List ID 1016398, 'St Ninian's preconquest monastic site, site of nucleated medieval settlement, St Ninian's Church and churchyard'.
Now there is hardly anything to see, apart from a few very low 'lumps and bumps' in the ground, but the site is in an amazing location in a bend of the River Eamont, so you can see why it was chosen.
HE tell us the site was originally identified by crop marks from the air, and "clearly show the infilled ditches of enclosures, pits, field boundaries and structural foundations. The pre-Conquest monastic site lies to the east of the St Ninian's Church and is seen from aerial photographs to include an elliptical enclosure containing three rectangular structures along the inside edge of the enclosure ditch and faint traces of several other structures. The central of the three structures is sub-divided into two rooms. This form of monastic settlement typified by the circular enclosure is of early medieval Irish influence".
After a prolonged dry period, it was possible to make out some lighter areas of grass which may have run along the top of foundation lines; certainly our feet were sensitive to harder areas which ran in straight lines, and we picked out what may have been the outlines of monastic or village buildings.
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