Kinniside Stone Circle

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Kinniside Stone Circle

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Kinniside Stone Circle
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Location Cumbria
Coordinates 54°30′47″N3°27′10″W / 54.513013°N 3.452687°W / 54.513013; -3.452687 Coordinates: 54°30′47″N3°27′10″W / 54.513013°N 3.452687°W / 54.513013; -3.452687
Type Stone circle
History
Periods Neolithic? / Bronze Age?

Kinniside Stone Circle (or Blakeley Raise Stone Circle) is a reconstructed stone circle in the civil parish of Ennerdale and Kinniside in Cumbria, England (grid reference NY060140 ).

Stone circle monument of standing stones arranged in a circle

A stone circle is a circular alignment of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC. The best known examples include those at the henge monument at Avebury, the Rollright Stones and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Ancient stone circles appear throughout Europe with many appearing in the Pyrenees, on the Causse de Blandas in southern France in the Cevennes, in the Alps, and Bulgaria.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

Cumbria Ceremonial (geographic) county of England

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's county town is Carlisle, in the north of the county, and the only other major urban area is Barrow-in-Furness on the southwestern tip of the county.

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Description

Kinniside Stone Circle is situated next to the fell road from Ennerdale Bridge to Calder Bridge in Cumbria. [1] It consists of 11 small stones of local granite with a possible cairn at its centre. [2]

Ennerdale Bridge human settlement in United Kingdom

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Calder Bridge hamlet in Cumbria in the United Kingdom

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Granite A common type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock with granular structure

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar, although commonly the term "granite" is used to refer to a wider range of coarse-grained igneous rocks containing quartz and feldspar.

The circle was apparently dismantled in the 18th century by a farmer who used the stones for gate-posts. [2] In 1925 a Doctor Quine of Frizington "restored" the stone circle, setting the stones in concrete. [2] Whether or not he erected the stones in their original stone holes is unclear, and it is unlikely that all of the re-erected stones come from the original circle. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kinniside Stone Circle". Visit Cumbria. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Historic England. "Monument No. 8812". PastScape. Retrieved 17 August 2015.

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