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| Dalston stone circle, Dalston | ||
| Dalston Stone Circle | ||
| Chapel Flat Stone Circle | ||
| locality:- | Chapel Flat | |
| locality:- | Dalston | |
| civil parish:- | Dalston (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle (gone) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3650 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY35 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 192:- "..." "In Dalston parish in a field about a mile from the church called Chapel Flat, ... A circle of rude stones three feet diameter, and 30 yards in circumference, was here many years ago, and within it to the east four stones as of a kistvaen. Not far from it is a tumulus eight yards diameter at bottom, and two at top, and about three yards high. On opening it were found near the top two freestones, about three" goto sourcePage 193:- "feet long, one broad, and six inches thick, which had a sort of circle very rudely cut or marked near the top, but nothing under them. ..." |
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| hearsay:- |
Gone; described as a 'circle of rude stones, ten yards in diameter'. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Nicolson, J &Burn, R: 1777: History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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