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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 513 |
| Date Entered | 04/05/2012 |
| Updated on | 07/05/2012 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Burial Mounds and Cairns |
| Record Type | Northern Britain |
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| Site Access | Public Access Land |
| Record Date | 29/04/2012 |
| Location | Cumbria. Askham CP.Moor Divock. |
| Civil Parish | Not known |
| Brit. National Grid | NY 489 224 |
| Altitude | 760ft |
| Geology | Drift over Carboniferous Limestone. |
| Record Name | SWAAG in Eden. Part Five. Burial mounds on Moor Divock. |
| Record Description | This record is a photographic record the recent visit by SWAAG Members to Moor Divock where there are very many burial mounds of various dimensions, all are probably of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. These burial monuments are associated with small stone rows, standing stone, ring cairns and three recently recognised burnt mounds. The more prominent of these mounds have been excavated generally during the 19C when recording was poor or non existent. At least two of the burial mounds contain recognisable stone cists, long emptied of their contents.
The whole area is Scheduled as of significant archaeological landscape importance. |
| Dimensions | Various, see photos. |
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| Tree Site ID | 0 |
| Associated Site SWAAG ID | 0 |
| Additional Notes | Perhaps the most interesting of all the burial monuments on Moor Divock is the small Cairn Circle at NY associated with a stone alignment, possibly a processional way terminating on the Cop Stone.See Photographs.
This small cairn circle was excavated with finds which included (To follow). |
| Image 1 ID | 2787 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 1 Description | SWAAG members at the White Cairn discussing visible cist long empty. |  |
| Image 2 ID | 2789 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 2 Description | Moor Divock , located above Ullswater is at the centre of a ring of hills with wide views. |  |
| Image 3 ID | 2786 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 3 Description | Round barrow with Shirley. |  |
| Image 4 ID | 2791 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 4 Description | Round cairn with three upright stones. |  |
| Image 5 ID | 2792 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 5 Description | The White Cairn. Ric ponders on the long dead. |  |
| Image 6 ID | 2793 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 7 ID | 2794 Click image to enlarge |
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| Image 8 ID | 2795 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 8 Description | Small cairn, undisturbed, one of many such cairns. |  |
| Image 9 ID | 2784 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 9 Description | The cairn circle with alignment which terminates on the Cop Stone. |  |
| Image 10 ID | 2796 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 10 Description | Pair of standing stones on the alignment, remnant of an avenue from the Cop Stone to the Cairn Circle, perhaps. |  |
