More information : (SD 88463275) Stone Circle (NR). (1)
Stone circle at 850 ft OD on Worsthorne Moor visited July 1932, was
in such a bad state of preservation that it was difficult to say
whether the stones at the site shown on the map, are part of it.
However, they are in the place indicated; are practically the
only stones on this part of the moor, and have signs of old and
modern disturbance of the surface associated with them. They are
recognised by local folk as being the remains of a monument. (2)
Re-surveyed at 1:2500 (SD 88463276). (3)
SD 8845 3276. Ring cairn on Slipper Hill. Scheduled RSM No 23723. (4)
Although Burl (5) and the Ordnance Survey regarded this as a distinct monument from that recorded as SD 83 NE 13, Barnatt (6) treats both as the same site. This seems perfectly plausible on the basis of the extant sources. Barnatt suggests that if, as one source apparently suggests, orthostats formerly stood here, then the monument may originally have been an embanked stone circle, rather than a ring cairn (as currently described) or a stone circle (as suggested by Burl and others). (5, 6) |