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The Nine Stones
Hob Uid: 55672
Location : North Yorkshire Hambleton Over Silton, Thimbleby
Grid Ref : SE4700095500
Summary : A complex of Bronze Age monuments, comprising a field system and nine standing stones, forming the possible remains of a stone alignment. This monument is not to be confused with other standing stones of the same name in Devon, Dorset and Derbyshire. The field system is visible as earthworks on air photographs and has been mapped as part of the North York Moors National Mapping Programme Project.
More information : (SE 47099527) Nine Stones (NAT) (1) Thimbleby Moor. An extensive system of small, irregular fields with tumbled stone walls covering large parts of the northern slope of the recently burned off heather moor was revealed on air photography by D R Brown and D A Spratt in 1976. There are also a few round cairns. To the S, on the crest of the moor, are four standing stones and some fallen megaliths known as The Nine Stones, perhaps the remains of a double alignment leading to the site. (The NGR SE 470944 is given but this falls S of Thimbleby Moor. SE 470955 would centre the field system North of the Nine Stones as described. Nothing visible on RAF air photographs 1951). (2) Elements of the probable Bronze Age field system described by the above authority is visible as earthworks on air photographs centred at SE 4725 9577. Fragments of irregular field boundaries and five probable cairns are visible on the northern slopes of Thimbleby Moor. The banked earthworks of the field system appear stony in character. The field system has been mapped using the available air photographs as part of the North York Moors National Mapping Programme Project. Elements of the earthworks appear extant on the latest 2009 vertical photography. (3)

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Source details : OS 1:10000 1977
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Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : c2500 to 700 BC
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2500
Monument Type : Field System, Stone Alignment, Standing Stone, Cairn, Field Boundary
Evidence : Earthwork, Structure, Conjectural Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (N Yorks Moors National Park)
External Cross Reference Number : 12455
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 49 NE 27
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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2010-06-01
End Date : 2011-05-01

Historic England Research Records

The Nine Stones