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Stanwick Hillfort
Date Added: 16th Mar 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 12th Mar 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Stanwick Hillfort submitted by rich32 on 2nd Oct 2006. Stanwick is one huge site, if you could walk round the ramparts you’d cover about 4miles & internally you’ve got 750 acres to get lost in.
The earliest evidence dates the fortifications from the mid to late Iron Age, with occupation waning towards the end of the 1st century AD. It’s likely to have been an important stronghold for the Brigantes & may have been the home of queen Cartimandua, who ruled at the time those chaps from Rome visited.
Theres bundles of evidence from other per...
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Log Text: HUGE site. To reach the middle of the site I still had more than a mile to drive when I stopped to ask a young couple what a line of ancient-looking earthworks might be. I was very surprised to be told it was all part of the same huge site. I drove around, then I walked around, and I came to an excavated section of wall so wide, so high, and so well built that, oh, the shame of it, I assumed I'd made a mistake and it was Roman. But it isn't - it's proper Iron Age British!
Yarnbury Henge
Date Added: 24th Apr 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Yarnbury Henge submitted by stu on 11th Oct 2003. SE01428 65364. The pocket sized henge at Yarnbury.
30m in diameter with shallow ditch and low bank. Damaged entrance in south.
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Mudbeck
Date Added: 3rd May 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Beamsley Beacon
Date Added: 6th Aug 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Beamsley Beacon submitted by SumDoood on 5th Aug 2016. Pendle Hill to the WSW (and to the right is, I think, Longridge Fell).
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Log Text: Middleton Moor's rock art is 1-2kms away, but this is a pleasant out and back walk from the highest point on the nearest road, with powerful views from a location itself visible from a wide radius. The cairn is simply a BIG pile of stones, but the location gives it considerable validity.
Hutton Moor
Date Added: 12th Sep 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Hutton Moor submitted by Bladup on 23rd Feb 2025. Hutton Moor Henge (Another wonderful image courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Nunwick Henge
Date Added: 12th Sep 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Nunwick Henge submitted by Bladup on 26th Jan 2025. Nunwick Henge (Photo courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Gilling Long Cairn
Date Added: 4th Mar 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Gilling Long Cairn submitted by bec-zog on 31st Aug 2004. Gilling Long Cairn @ SE603742.
Neolithic.
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Duggleby Howe
Date Added: 7th Apr 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Duggleby Howe submitted by PaulH on 2nd Apr 2003. North Yorkshire
SE 881669
Duggleby How Neolithic round barrow, viewed from North.
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Log Text: Take your imagination with you.
Ing Scar
Date Added: 10th Jun 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Ing Scar submitted by rich32 on 5th Aug 2005. Ing Scar settlement, nr Malham, North Yorks - SD8931964626
On the hills north of Malham, are remains of several settlements dating from the Bronze Age onwards. This particular site at Ing Scar is thought to be Iron Age, or Romano-British. A number of lines of walling can still be seen, central are the remains of 2 rectangular structures.
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Green Plain settlement
Date Added: 11th Jun 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Green Plain settlement submitted by rogerkread on 20th May 2017. The clearest circular feature.
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Castle Dykes
Date Added: 27th Jun 2017
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Castle Dykes submitted by rich32 on 7th Jul 2004. Castle Dykes Henge, nr Aysgarth, North Yorkshire (SD98228728)
The henge has a diameter of about 75m with the ditch being up to 2m in some places. There are entrances to the north, south & east, although only the eastern one is thought to be original and of antiquity.
This henge is fairly well preserved, but as seems obligatory with our henges its covered in cow poo. This photo (looking east) does not really do the site justice.
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Appletreewick
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Appletreewick submitted by andy_h on 14th Feb 2003. Appletreewick Stone Circle, Yorkshire Dales.
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Danby Rigg Cross Dyke (Crossley Side)
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Danby Rigg Cross Dyke (Crossley Side) submitted by Anne T on 5th Jul 2017. Standing some 10 metres from the footpath in the middle of the cross dyke looking down into Little Fryup Dale with Crossley House Farm below.
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Danby Rigg Cairn With Standing Stone
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Danby Rigg submitted by tlgreen on 11th Sep 2011. Standing stone on Ainthope Rigg, remnant of a former stone circle.
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Thimbleby Nine Stones
Date Added: 20th Aug 2017
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Thimbleby Nine Stones submitted by SolarMegalith on 15th Mar 2013. Northern pair of standing stones - view from the south (photo taken on March 2013).
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Tor Dike
Date Added: 22nd Aug 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Yordas cave
Date Added: 19th Oct 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Yordas Cave submitted by andy_h on 27th Apr 2004. Previously a Victorian Showcave in which evidence of early human habitation was found. A wonderful place to spend an afternoon exploring with a torch. The highlight being the underground waterfall chamber at the back of the cave.
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Swarth Howe Barrow, stone row and ring cairn
Date Added: 9th Jan 2018
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Swarth Howe Barrow, stone row and ring cairn submitted by Bladup on 27th Jan 2014. One of the stones of the row between Swarth Howe barrow and the ring cairn [where the trig point is].
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The Great Stone Of Fourstones
Date Added: 10th Jan 2018
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jan 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Great Stone Of Fourstones submitted by Sunny100 on 9th Jun 2010. The Great Stone Of Fourstones Nr Bentham, N.Yorks at SD.669663.
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Log Text: Zoom in using Bing’s aerial view and you will see, close to the big stone, a big enough boggy hole in the ground to the North, and one at 1 o’clock, and another at 2 o’clock. I’ll dare to suggest that they might indicate where the missing three stones once stood.
Interesting too is the track immediately on the west side of the Great Stone. To the south it becomes one track which seems to continue on across Aikengill Road, then swing west to join that same road c. 200m away, and to swing east then south to continue generally towards the farm known as Sea View on Ringstones Lane (and there’s a name to ponder on!). North of the Great Stone the “dual carriageway” of tracks spreads like fingers through the boggy ground, but the walker here will find that generally the path curves towards Fourstones Barn and continues north-ish from there. It seems quite possible that the track(s) described in this paragraph were the forerunners of the modern Slaidburn Road.
Hammond Close Stone (Threshfield)
Date Added: 23rd Apr 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit