More information : (NY 48991629) Standing Stones (NR)
(NY 48951620) Cairn (NR)
(NY 49151634) Cairn (NR) (1)
On Four Stones Hill, occupying a shelf on the side of the fell, are the following: (a) 2 standing stones about 4 1/2ft and 3 3/4ft high and 7 1/2ft apart. (b) A cairn about 33ft in diameter and 1 1/2ft high, largely overgrown and standing within an enclosure of uncertain date. (c) A cairn, about 36ft-38ft in diameter and 4 1/2ft high and disturbed in the middle. (d) About 280 yards E of (c) a heap of stones, possibly also a cairn. (2)
Description correct except for (d) which could not be located. The 'enclosure' associated with (b) appears to be no more than a bank delineating a small disused field. Clearance of this field could be the origin of cairn (b).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 and DAP 72/343 No 051. (3)
Fourstones Hill. An irregular enclosure, a large cairn and two standing stones, situated to the north of the summit of Fourstones Hill. The cairn is 15m x 10m diameter and 1.2m high. A depression in its centre may have been caused by the recent construction of a circular enclosure built on top of the mound. The enclosure is also fairly disturbed. The two standing stones are 1.25m high, approximately 0.6m wide and 0.3m deep. The name of the hill would suggest that two further stones once existed here.
Survey by Lancaster University Archaeological Unit, 1984/5 also identified a cairnfield of 11 cairns and one sub-circular enclosure or hut-circle tightly clustered to the south-west of Little Birkhouse Hill. The enclosure has no apparent entrance. (4)
NY 49141634 Round cairn N of Four Stones Hill (22515). An oval mound of stones up to 0.8m high with maximum dimensions of 12m by 10m. The monument has been disturbed in the centre and stones arranged to form a low circular wall on the cairn's summit; scheduled. (5)
NY 48951618 Enclosure containing four clearance cairns and a stone bank W of Four Stones Hill (22599); scheduled. (6)
NY 49051627 Two standing stones NW of Four Stones Hill (22600); scheduled. (7) |