fitzcoraldo
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Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 02, 2008, 10:48
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Hi Eds
would it be possible to merge these two sites please.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1838/harwood_dale.html
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5942/cloughton_moor.html
As for the site name, Frank Elgee calls the site Standing Stones Rigg as do Chappell and Brown so I guess this is the correct name for the site.
Stanhope White favours Knox's description and calls the site 'the druids circle'. Burl refers to the site as Cloughton Moor, which is also an accurate description of the location.
cheers
fitz
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 02, 2008, 11:05
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sorry the hassle you eds but it's actually Standingstones Rigg
cheers
f
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TMA Ed
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Re: Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 02, 2008, 12:45
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Thanks Fitz, the two sites are now merged into 'Standingstones Rigg', if there's still any error in the grid reference, please let us know and that can be corrected if need be.
TMA Eds
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 02, 2008, 14:10
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Cheers Eds
a more precise grid ref would be 98251 96967
hopefully Robokid will find the place now.
If your reading this Robokid..ask at the farm.
thanks again
f
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Chris Collyer
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Re: Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 02, 2008, 18:40
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>If your reading this Robokid..ask at the farm
Also to answer your questions,
1. Yes the black & white picture is years old.
2. The google earth map points are often way off mark - I wouldn't use them unless the grid ref is either an 8 or 10 point ref. If you use the streepmap link on the page -
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=498300&y=496900&z=3&sv=498300,496900&st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
it's much closer (plus the position is shown on the OS map).
3. The stones are on open land just over the fence to the east of the forest. The colour photos by me and Stu were taken with the trees just behind us.
In my post I wrote 'walk southwest along the track from the barrier at SE982975 then follow the line of trees that run southeast'. If you follow the track to Fitz's co-ordinates you'll be there.
Good luck!
-Chris
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Johnnyboy
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Re: Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 20, 2008, 13:50
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Perhaps the confusion with two entries arose because there seems to have been another stone circle nearby until relatively recently. I've been trying to find out a bit about it, without much success. The Megalithic Portal has this, which seems to suggest that there were two different sites, and one was destroyed as recently as 2001:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=3136
I also found this on the Scarborough Evening News website:
http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Stone-circle-lies-in-ruins.388665.jp
The only other reference I could find was in Cloughton Parish Council's notes from late 2001 - early 2002, which makes reference to "the stone circle at the Hulleys" being badly damaged by contractors. The Hulleys is a farm / estate, about a mile and a half East of Standingstones Rigg on the road to Staintondale and Ravenscar. No stone circle, or site of one shown anywhere near the Hulleys on my OS map though - anybody got any more on this?
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Attn Eds Harwood Dale / Cloughton Moor
Apr 20, 2008, 14:20
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Howdo Johnny
The Hulleys site was recorded and mapped by Frank Elgee although I think it may have been first recorded by Knox, I'm working off memory here so may not be 100% correct. The site is in the valley close to Hulleys farm. I think a later evaluations cast doubts on whether the strutures there could be classified as a stone circle or more of a farmstead type structure. If no one else pipes up I'll give you a more definite answer in a couple of weeks when I can access my books.
cheers
fitz
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