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| Druids' Circle, Urswick | ||
| Druids' Circle | ||
| Birkrigg Stone Circle | ||
| locality:- | Birkrigg Common | |
| civil parish:- | Urswick (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle | |
| coordinates:- | SD292739 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2973 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
| altitude:- | 230 feet | |
| altitude:- | 70m | |
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 BRD96.jpg (taken 31.7.2009)  BRD95.jpg Showing the outer circle hidden in the grass. (taken 31.7.2009) |
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| evidence:- | probably site plan:- Close 1805 placename:- Stone Walls |
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| source data:- | Site plan, hand coloured engraving, Plan of Two Ancient Enclosures, near Urswick,
called Stone Walls, Urswick, Lancashire, probably by William Close, published by George
Ashburner, Ulverston, 1805. click to enlargeWS29M7.jpg "PLAN OF TWO ANCIENT ENCLOSURES, NEAR URSWICK, / CALLED STONE WALLS" item:- Armitt Library : A1650.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Jopling 1843 |
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| source data:- | Print, site plan of the Druids' Circle, Urswick, Lancashire, by Charles M Jopling,
published by Whittaker and Co, Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston,
Cumberland, 1843. click to enlargeJP1E13.jpg On p.98 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling. item:- Armitt Library : A1636.15 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- West 1774 (2nd edn 1805) placename:- Stone Walls item:- |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Plan of Two Ancient Enclosures, near Urswick, Called
Stone Walls, perhaps Birkrigg Stone Circle? Urswick, Lancashire, scale about 1 to
1600, drawn by William Close? published 1805. click to enlargeWS2710.jpg On p.397 in The Antiquities of Furness, by Thomas West, 2nd edn edited by William Close. printed at top:- "PLAN OF TWO ANCIENT ENCLOSURES, NEAR URSWICK, / CALLED STONE WALLS." printed at with scale line:- "SCALE OF YARDS." item:- private collection : 202.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Two concentric circles, 12 stones diameter 8.5m, 20 stones diameter 24m but incomplete.
Stones are loacl Carboniferous limestone. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Thom, A: 1967: Megalithic Sites in Britain: Oxford University Press (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Dobson, J: 1907:: TWCAAS: vol.7: pp.72- Gelderd, G &Dobson, J: 1912:: TWCAAS: vol.12: pp.262- Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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