More information : (NZ 70800656) Standing Stone (GT) (1)
This stone stands about 5ft 8ins in height and is about 4ft wide and
1 1/2 ft in depth. (2)
A well weathered stone nearly 6ft high, set amidst a large group of
small stoney barrows. According to Atkinson it is the last of four
such stones which formerly stood round the inner side of a circular
bank of earth and stone 6ft wide, 3 1/2 to 4ft high, and enclosing a
space of 42ft diameter. Though much defaced by a well used trackway
the bank is still visible. At a depth of 18 inches at the centre
Atkinson found two inverted urns with cremations.
The urns were late Bronze Age. (3)
Subsequent publication - Stone Circle (GT) (Remains of) (4)
An enclosed cremation cemetery 9.5m diameter formed originally by an
earth and stone bank 3m wide and 0.5m high. This is still well
preserved on the eastern arc, but elsewhere is reduced to a narrow
spread of stone. Two gaps north and south have been made in the
bank by foot traffic, and there is also a 'lowering' in the NE.
The surviving standing stone is in the SE quadrant on the inner
limit of the bank (see sketch). There are no socket-holes to
indicate the possible sites of the other three stones. Internally
the circle is flat with no trace of an internal mound.
Published survey (25") revised. (5)
A ring cairn and standing stone situated on Danby Rigg, within an predominantly Bronze Age landscape. The cairn was excavated by Atkinson in 1863 and re-excavated in 1986-99. At the centre of the ring cairn there was a 1.7 metres by 1.1 metre pit containing two Bronze Age cremation urns and a large quantity of burnt bone. The ring cairn itself is 9.5 metres in diameter and was originally formed by a earth and stone ring bank 3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. This ring bank is well preserved on the eastern arc, but elsewhere is reduced to a narrow spread of stone. The standing stone is one of a number of waymark stones which mark the medieval footpath, one of two across the rigg, from Slate Hill at the head of Little Fryup Dale to Ainthorpe. Scheduled. (6)
The Bronze Age ring cairn and standing stone are visible on air photographs, centred at NZ 7079 0657. The cairn is visible as a stoney earthwork bank and has been mapped with the standing stone as part of the North York Moors NMP Project. Erosion of the bank is apparent where a pathway extends through the monument, it otherwise remains extant on the latest 2009 vertical photography. (7-8) |