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| Gamelands, Orton S | ||
| Gamelands | ||
| Orton Stone Circle | ||
| civil parish:- | Orton S (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle | |
| coordinates:- | NY64000817 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6408 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY60 | |
| altitude:- | 869 feet | |
| altitude:- | 265m | |
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 BPR83.jpg (taken 3.10.2008)  BPR84.jpg (taken 3.10.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 22 13) placename:- Gamelands |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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 BPR85.jpg A boulder, ?glacial erratic. (taken 3.10.2008)  BPR86.jpg A boulder, bits of ?granite embedded in ? (taken 3.10.2008) |
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| hearsay:- |
40 stones left in a ring 44.4x38.8m, Shap granite except one .limestone |
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| Flatenned circle Thom type A. |
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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) Ferguson, R S: 1883:: TWCAAS: vol.6: pp.183 Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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