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Casterton stone circle, Casterton
Casterton Stone Circle
Druid's Temple
civil parish:-   Casterton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone circle
coordinates:-   SD63927998
1Km square:-   SD6379
10Km square:-   SD67
altitude:-   525 feet
altitude:-   160m

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Stone Circle at Casterton, Casterton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
image  click to enlarge
HMW045.jpg
On p.67 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "STONE CIRCLE AT CASTERTON"
RCHME no. Wmd, Casterton 5 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.45
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
19 stones in a circular bank diameter 19m.

Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3
Fell, C I: 1953:: TWCAAS: vol.53: pp.1-
: 1828 (29 March):: Westmorland Advertiser and Kendal Chronicle
Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States)

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