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Mayburgh
Date Added: 19th Oct 2022
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mayburgh submitted by TerryStaniforth on 10th Jan 2007. Panorama at Mayburgh Henge in frost.
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Log Text: After a fabulous breakfast its time to start my day. Once I have found my way out of Penrith, cross the river and turn right at Eaumont Bridge, right by King Arthur's Round Table henge. Right again before the motorway near a large millennium stone, and theres a parking area. Short walk to Mayburgh Henge, and what a fabulous place it is. Far bigger than I had imagined, the effort it must have taken to create this out of millions of river boulders and pebbles is astounding. I walk all around the henge taking a lot of pictures, none of which do it justice. The large stone standing in the middle really makes the place, along with all the old tree roots growing amongst the boulders. Terrific.
King Arthur's Round Table
Date Added: 20th Oct 2022
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
King Arthur's Round Table submitted by h_fenton on 1st Oct 2010. King Arthur's Round Table.
I tried to fly the kite here but the wind was too inconsistent to safely get the camera high enough. Here instead of a kite I used a carp fishing pole, with a camera attachment on the end to lift my camera higher (6-7 metres).
10 September 2010
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Log Text: From Mayburgh I walk to King Arthur's Round Table, and then pop into its field for a walk around the outside. Much smaller, and more henge like than the nearby Mayburgh, this has the ditch well inside the outer bank. Unfortunately, being so close to the busy roads, it suffers a fair bit in the ambience stakes.
Cop Stone
Date Added: 21st Nov 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cop Stone submitted by nicoladidsbury on 16th Feb 2005. Cop Stone, Moor Divock, Near Askham
OS NY 4959 2160
We approached Moor Divock on bike, setting off from Askham, via Whale, Helton and Heltonhead, so I was a little bit tired....
The bridleway over the moor was smooth, level and firm, excellent for bike riding. We spotted the Cop Stone off to the right and, abandoning the bikes, we walked over springy turf and heather to investigate. The stone is aproximately 1.20m, and leaning to the north. Moor Divock is an exciting place, to the north t...
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Log Text: It’s a simple drive from Mayburgh up through Askham, then on to Helton and up onto the moorland plateau, with plenty of parking beside the road near to the Cop Stone. Boots on, map in pocket, water, sandwiches, camera and raincoat in bag, tracker set, then its off for my exploration of the Moor Divock sites. It's quite busy up here, with a constant stream of people walking and cycling past. First off is the Cop Stone, which is for some reason much smaller than I was expecting. Erosion has made a large depression around the stone, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was to fall over in the not too distant future. Despite thinking I had read that the ring cairn of which the Cop Stone is a part was now largely destroyed, it seemed to be fairly obvious to my eyes, so I took a walk around its circumference, and found plenty more stones sticking up above the heather, particularly in the western arc. I have to say, the Cop Stone does look good perched up here in this splendid place.
Moor Divock 2
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 2 submitted by Anne T on 16th May 2022. A view of the stones looking almost due west. The handle of my walking pole is pointing due north.
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Log Text: From the Cop Stone, I head off along the trackway until I see the stones of the little cairn circle Moor Divock 4 off in the distance, so then head off along a smaller path towards that. There are a couple of large stones standing proud of the ground which I go to look at, and it seems they are clearly stood up and standing in their positions with a few smaller stones also. Clearly not natural. I later find this to be Moor Divock 2.
Askham Fell Cairn Stone Row
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Askham Fell Cairn Stone Row submitted by SandyG on 7th Jan 2018. The two western stones and nearby kerbed cairn. View from south (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: I notice online that a little avenue is declared to the south of MD4, so I have a good look around. I see perhaps a couple of stones, and maybe a set of 4 in a square arrangement, but nothing which shouts out to me that here is a stone row.
Moor Divock 4
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Moor Divock 4 submitted by h_fenton on 7th Oct 2010. An oblique Kite Aerial Photograph of 'Moor Divock 4' ring cairn, viewed from roughly south.
11 September 2010
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Log Text: From the MD2 stones, there is a path out to the clearly seen standing stones of Moor Divock 4, marked as Cairn Circle on the OS map. This consists of a round cairn of stones, surmounted by a ring of about 10 large stones standing proudly on top. It’s a lovely little thing, and from it can be quite clearly seen several other cairns on this moorland plateau. I sit here for a while just looking at the world around me and start to wonder. If this is Moor Divock 4, the previous stones were MD2, then what happened to MD3? I have good phone signal up here and so fire up the megalithic portal, only to find that MD3 is shown as beyond MD5. The pictures for it are mostly of MD4, so that can't be right.
Moor Divock 3
Date Added: 22nd Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 4 submitted by postman on 25th Oct 2012. Sometimes a friend at work will ask why I do this , but the question isn't why I do, it's why don't you ? (though really I know the answer)
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Log Text: From MD4 I head back to the main trackway, where my attention is drawn to a couple of large stones laying just off the trackway to the right. I wonder if this was once a cairn with a few kerbstones. I look at the portal again, and see a cup marked stone somewhere around here, and wonder if it is that? No, its not that, which is marked further to the north. Thinking back now home, three weeks later and having got the old plan in front of me, I wonder if this is the remains of MD3. Unlike me, I did not take or keep any pictures of this, probably convinced that there was nothing of any ancient importance at this place! Doh!
Moor Divock carved stone
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022
Moor Divock carved stone submitted by nicoladidsbury on 16th Feb 2005. Possible carved stone on Moor Divock close to Moor Divock 4 ring cairn
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Log Text: Having got the portal details of this I had a good look in a couple of places where I found two cairn/shooting butt structures in a sort of wall. The best I found was a stone with several holes in it, which I didn't think were anything other than natural or perhaps quarrying marks. But I probably didn't find the listed stone.
Moor Divock 4 to 5 Stone Avenue
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Sep 2022
Log Text: Having walked back to the main trackway, I headed along it in a northwesterly direction, before taking a small path out towards the obvious cairn of MD5. As a result, I didn't see anything of the MD4-5 avenue, as I didn't know it was here to look for, and wouldn't have been in the right place by fate.
Moor Divock 5
Date Added: 23rd Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock 5 submitted by stu on 16th Jul 2004. NY 4930 2217.
Round cairn with 3 stones on its western side aligned N-S.
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Log Text: I walked further along the main trackway, before taking a small path out towards the obvious cairn of Moor Divock 5. It is an obvious large round cairn with three large stones in a sort of row sticking out across the top and many others laying around, presumably once making up a ring around a hollow in the centre of the cairn. Nearby to the north is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
Askham Fell Stone Row
Date Added: 24th Nov 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Askham Fell Stone Row submitted by SandyG on 16th Nov 2019. The stone row at NY 49233 22240. View from the south.
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Log Text: From Moor Divock 5, I walk off to the northwest towards White Raise cairn, which can clearly be seen. Much of the bracken has been cut back, and it seems a reasonable way to go. I start to see lots of stones poking their pale tops clear of the grass. Am I imagining it, or is this some sort of stone row. It certainly looks possible. Further on, and there are more stones, some of them quite large and certainly not in natural positions. Intriguing. I now start to think I am seeing two rows of stones, fairly unevenly spaced, and not particularly parallel, but definitely there. At this point, everything is disturbed by a large shakehole and gulley, so I cannot directly follow what would have been the line of the stones. Once past this, and there are more stones standing in amongst the ferns, and it is now noticeable that the bracken has been cut back along the line of this avenue. Its a pity I hadn't spotted this before, and just headed off directly from the northern hillock at MD5 towards White Raise. This just has to be an avenue of stones running between MD5 and White Raise. It is only much later when I start to log my findings that I see there is an avenue included on the portal, under the name Askham Fell, not Moor Divock. It is really pleasing to have sort of found this all by myself without any prior knowledge. Several weeks later I still feel chuffed!
Moor Divock 6, 7 and 8
Date Added: 24th Nov 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Couldn't find on 20th Sep 2022
Log Text: Now much later than my explorations, I am looking at an old antiquarian article, "The Prehistoric Remains on Moordivock, near Ullswater. — By M. WAISTELL TAYLOR". I see that in approximately where the shake hole and gulley was, there are marked cairn circles MD6, MD7 and MD8. These are nowhere near where they were recorded on the megalithic portal, which I had been to look for at the end of my visit, right up near Heughscar Hill. Cairn MD6 is recorded as a ring of seven stones, 25 feet in diameter. Cairn MD7 is recorded as a double ring of five stones each, just 14 feet in diameter. Cairn MD8 is recorded as a ring of seven stones, just 9 feet in diameter.
Moor Divock Round Cairn D
Date Added: 13th Feb 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock Round Cairn D submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Nov 2022. Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
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Log Text: Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
White Raise Cairn
Date Added: 15th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
White Raise Cairn submitted by baz on 3rd May 2003. White Raise Cairn (NY489224). This 20m. long cairn has an exposed central cist.
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Log Text: I eventually get to the White Raise cairn, MD10, a large roundish mass of stones on top of a small natural hillock. Its not very round, with a few sticking out arms, and it is clear why this became known as "The Starfish Cairn". Clambering up onto the top of it, and the previous notable cairns can be seen in the distance. There is a hollow containing a large cist, fairly big and much deeper than any I have seen on Dartmoor. Near to this cist, on the eastern side, are a couple of large stones, no doubt once the capstones of the cist. There are other stones which may once have formed a ring around the structure.
The Cockpit
Date Added: 17th Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
The Cockpit submitted by LivingRocks on 18th Mar 2005. A panoramic view of the Cockpit Stone Circle which according to Magicmap ‘includes a circular kerbed stone bank 2.8m -11.2m wide and up to 0.5m high which encloses an area approximately 27m in diameter. There are 27 (?) standing and recumbent stones set largely into the internal face of this bank, thereby creating the stone circle. The tallest standing stone measures about 0.95m high and some of the recumbent stones are up to 1.9m in length. Within the eastern side of the stone circle, abuttin...
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Log Text: I have been meaning to visit The Cockpit for many many years, and I managed to do so in September 2022. From White Raise I head off towards the Cockpit, down to the major crossing of tracks, and then taking the way to the west, on what is now a largely rebuilt and upraised stone trackway across the boggy moorland. This has made what was probably difficult going into a very easy and pleasant walk. Just after a little ford over a stream, and there it is, looking all green inside and splendid. Its a large circular area of flat ground surrounded by a stone lined embankment, with a good set of quite large stones around the inner edge, another not so complete ring around the outside. There are a few little round cairn like structures spaced around its circumference, the largest being at the eastern side. Time for lunch, then I'd better head back. Having looked at the rough and marshy ground to the south, I decide to go back the way I came, and not to make up a loop walk across the open moorland to look for a few other cairns and "piles of stones" marked on the OS map.
Long Meg
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg submitted by JanF on 22nd Jun 2010. Long Meg (and her daughters) Stone Circle, Cumbria UK, is a magical place.. I watched the sunset on this special day in memory of my loved one.. Many others were here with me.. Complete strangers, but yet close friends..
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Log Text: Before heading east over the Pennines, I have time to go and visit Long Meg. A new car park has been made which is well signposted, which leaves a 500 metre walk to the stone circle. I start my visit with Long Meg itself, as there are a few other people here who go the other way. What a lovely stone, standing proud overlooking the circle with its spirals and of course the face of Long Meg herself.
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Iain_P on 12th Aug 2017. Another. It was the only sun we saw all week!
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Log Text: Now to walk around the circle. It's huge, much bigger than my memory was telling me and with a little double stoned entrance up near Long Meg. The stones are basically large rounded boulders, like giant pebbles from a riverbed, and its not really accurate to consider them as standing stones. Lots of young cows in and around the stones, some of which seem to be playing hide and seek.
Bullring
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2011
Bullring submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Aug 2011. Panoramic view of the Bullring Henge, taken early evening of the open day, and stitched together using ICE.
Not sure how this will work when uploaded to the Portal, but can only try!
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Five Wells
Date Added: 30th Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Five Wells submitted by Humbucker on 7th Jun 2018. The pretty eastern chamber of Five Wells looking roughly NE.
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Nine Stones Close
Date Added: 30th Aug 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Nine Stones Close submitted by postman on 26th Dec 2012. Zoomed stones and stride
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