Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Asper's Field Stone, Shap


included in:-	Karl Lofts, Shap probably
	Asper's Field Stone, Shap
	Asper's Field Stone
locality:-	Shap
civil parish:-	Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	stone
locality type:-	standing stone
locality type:-	stone alignment
coordinates:-	NY55831521
1Km square:-	NY5515
10Km square:-	NY51

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 14)
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. "Stone" in English Black Letter

evidence:-	probably old text:- Gents Mag
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 "... The stone next remaining north of it [Goggleby Stone], which formed part of the east line, is about 13 feet long, and six feet in diameter; but it is a different kind of stone to all the rest; this is basalt or whinstone, and all the others are granite. This stone probably once was placed upon its end; for one end seems to have been squared with a chisel, and it has the appearance of having been overturned by digging limestone from beneath it. In the middle of the part squared is a hole four inches over, and two inches deep; about two feet therefrom, on a sloping corner, is another hole of about the same size. on one of the corners at the other end is a rude circle, eight inches across, and a shallow hole in the centre. By minute examination, other inscriptions of this kind, perhaps, might be found here, as on the obelisks at Aubrey described by Dr. Stukeley."

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

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