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Artigo 2 posts |
Jan 08, 2008, 17:01
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Cairn with Cross Old Trig Point New Trig Point Totley Circle There's a lot going on up on Totley Moor. There's the cairn with a cross on top at 53° 18' 23.18" N, 1° 34' 8.30" W, which, as far as I can make out, stands exactly where the old trig point (1252 ft, 382 m) NOT the new trig point (395 m) used to stand. I'm interested in the exact position of Totley Circle of course. stu and stubob, whom I presume to be one and the same person, suggest that it is approx. 100 m east-south-east. That would place it at the western tip of the heather-free wedge that can be clearly seen in Google Earth. The heather-free circle between the cairn and the wedge would seem a more likely sight to me. Would stu or stubob please reply? Yours interestedly Artigo
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stubob 308 posts |
Jan 08, 2008, 21:26
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Hey up Artigo, Itsa coupla years since I was there…..by cairn and cross do you mean the dirty great thing you can shelter in? By the altitude I’m guessing so….and in that case you wanna head north from the cairn….maybe 100m….it was pre-gps days so best grid ref I can come up with is SK2883 7899. The circle then was definitely, for the most part, heather covered, sections of the 3m wide banking were visible along with the two fallen stones in the northeast-ish and west. Hope this helps nice one stu.
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Artigo 2 posts |
Jan 10, 2008, 15:44
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This helps a lot. I'm having a few problems with Ordnance Survey. They say that people are swiping stones from Totley Circle and putting them on the Cairn. They are even considering contacting English Heritage to have the Cairn dismantled. I've told Ordnance Survey that the two structures have nothing to do with each other, that the stones of Totley Circle at about 200 kg a piece are far too heavy to move and that the stones in the Cairn come from the redundant dry-stone wall that runs roughly east-west. In a nutshell I wrote: 1. Stones are not taken from the Totley Circle. 2. The Cairn is not built on the Totley Circle. 3. The Cairn is a prominent and useful landmark. 4. The Cairn is so large that it should be mapped. 5. To remove the Cairn would be a Sisyphean task since people would only rebuild it. 6. On the contrary, the word Enclosure on the map and the exhibits in Sheffield Museum only induce people to try to find the excavation site and sniff around in the hope of maybe finding a beaker themselves. Thankyou. This really does help a lot. A lot of people, including myself, like this Cairn.
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megadread 1202 posts |
Mar 12, 2008, 12:35
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for anyone interested, i was at this site a few weeks back and the circle is easily found due to the grass being burned back and currently around an inch high, the cross atop the cairn has dissapeared though.
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common era 865 posts |
Jul 13, 2008, 09:21
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I was at this site on Friday battling the wonderful English summer! I didn't find the circle so need to go back. The cross is back on the cairn, albeit a fairly flimsy wooden structure (nice to see that Christian misappropriation is still going on, but then why change the habit of 2,000 years). Anyway, thanks for the extra info here, I now feel I can go back and find it! Strawberry Lea is a whole other story though, as the bracken is simply way too high at this time of year.
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megadread 1202 posts |
Jul 13, 2008, 10:35
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If you want a guide i can go with you wednesday afternoon and show you mate (free of course). Wont have my van though. let me know.
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megadread 1202 posts |
Jul 13, 2008, 18:12
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megadread wrote: If you want a guide i can go with you wednesday afternoon and show you mate (free of course). Wont have my van though. let me know. Just thought, the barbrook circles are close by too if you havnt seen them yet and strawberry lea is easy to find even when the bracken is high. Im free from 1.30pm and have the rest of the day free.
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Chris Collyer 849 posts |
Jul 13, 2008, 22:13
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Stu's OS co-ordinates are spot on so I'm suprised you couldn't find it although I would reckon it's about 50 metres rather than 100 metres from the cairn. The grass is still really short too so it's worth getting back up there to have another look but watch out for the stag with his two doe's that I spotted - he had a hefty set of antlers on him and is probably best avoided. I'll post some pictures of the circle tomorrow that might help you find it in case you can't take megadread up on his offer. -Chris
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megadread 1202 posts |
Jul 13, 2008, 23:32
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I would love that beast to attack the off road motorcyclists who continue to wreck that part of the moor despite the new gate put there to stop them. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XOFuwpSMw
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Chris Collyer 849 posts |
Jul 14, 2008, 18:21
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Didn't see any motorbikes but there were a couple of mountain bikers on the moor, they probably just lifted their bikes over the gate. The track up from the brick building (gas/water station?) is pretty good but then the path up towards the cairn looked pretty damp and prone to erosion. -Chris
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