Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Goggleby Stone, Shap


included in:-	Karl Lofts, Shap probably
	Goggleby Stone, Shap
	Goggleby Stone
	Gogglesby Stone
civil parish:-	Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	standing stone
locality type:-	stone
locality type:-	stone alignment
coordinates:-	NY55911509
1Km square:-	NY5515
10Km square:-	NY51

	BJQ41.jpg (taken 22.7.2005)

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 14) placename:- Goggleby Stone
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.

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Guggleby Stone
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1824 part 1 p.4 "..." "One of the most prominent that remains, is called Guggleby stone, which formed part of the west line, and stands on its small end near the footpath leading to the village of Keld; it is eight feet high and 37 feet in girth at its middle. ..."

hearsay:-	A 12 ton standing stone that used to be part of an alignment of pairs of stones, an avenue called Karl Lofts; partly dispersed by railway building.

notes:-	Cup and ring marked?
	Becckensall, Stan: 2002: Prehistoric Rock Art in Cumbria: Tempus Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire)

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