Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Lacra stone circles, Millom Without | ||
| Lacra Stone Circles | ||
| locality:- | Low Crow | |
| civil parish:- | Millom Without (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle | |
| coordinates:- | SD150813 (circle A) | |
| coordinates:- | SD149810 (circle B) | |
| coordinates:- | SD150810 (circle C) | |
| coordinates:- | SD151813 (circle D) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1581 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1481 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD18 | |
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| hearsay:- |
Four circles. Rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series. |
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| Lacra A, 8 stones in circle diameter 15.7m. |
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| Lacra B, 6 stones left of 11, diameter 14.7m. |
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| Lacra C, only 3 or 4 stones left, diameter perhaps 24m. |
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| Lacra D, only 6 or 7 stones left of an ellipse 18x15m. There might have been an outer
ring; there is an alignment of pairs of stones to the ENE; there is an avenue for
100m WSW; etc. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Dixon, J A &Fell, C I: 1948: TWCAAS:: vol.48: pp.1- Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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