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| Kirk, Kirkby Moor | ||
| Kirkby Moor Stone Circle | ||
| locality:- | Kirkby Moor | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Ireleth (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle | |
| coordinates:- | SD251827 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2582 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD28 | |
| altitude:- | 656 feet | |
| altitude:- | 200m | |
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| hearsay:- |
Rough circular bank with stones, and ?associated standing stones. |
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| Up to the 19th century the circle was used as a meeting place on Easter Mondays, wrestling,
hurling, leaping, dancing, and such like games. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Jopling, C M: 1846:: Archaeologia: vol.31: pp.448 Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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