Stone Circle (Simonburn)
[NY 80217120] Stone Circle. (1)
A small stone circle, 12 stones of which are exposed above ground. (2)
A stone circle situated on pasture moorland having a diameter of 9m. There are 11 stones visible, of which eight protrude above ground level little more than 0.1m, of the remaining three, one in the east side stands to 0.6m, and two in the south side stand to 0.6m and 1m respectively.
There are no internal surface indications of a mound. GP/56/309/6. (3)
Correctly described above. Published survey (25 inch) correct. (4)
See 1/2500 survey by Authority 1 filed with NY 87 SW 22. (5)
Scheduled. (6)
Site visited as part of a Farm Environment Plan, where assessed as in a good condition. (7)
Simonburn, Haughton Common. Eleven stones are just visible here on a shallow platform that may have been artificially levelled. A survey by Martin Taylor produced a plan of a ring 8.9m x 7.8m WSW-ENE. Two of the tallest, some 1.2m high at the SW, may have acted as portals. (8a)
Prehistoric stone circle is visible on air photographs, centred at NY 8021 7120. Only some of the stones of the circle are visible. (8b-c)
General association with HER 7843 (Bronze Age round cairns), HER 22626 (two mounds). (8)
A small stone circle, 12 stones of which are exposed above ground. (2)
A stone circle situated on pasture moorland having a diameter of 9m. There are 11 stones visible, of which eight protrude above ground level little more than 0.1m, of the remaining three, one in the east side stands to 0.6m, and two in the south side stand to 0.6m and 1m respectively.
There are no internal surface indications of a mound. GP/56/309/6. (3)
Correctly described above. Published survey (25 inch) correct. (4)
See 1/2500 survey by Authority 1 filed with NY 87 SW 22. (5)
Scheduled. (6)
Site visited as part of a Farm Environment Plan, where assessed as in a good condition. (7)
Simonburn, Haughton Common. Eleven stones are just visible here on a shallow platform that may have been artificially levelled. A survey by Martin Taylor produced a plan of a ring 8.9m x 7.8m WSW-ENE. Two of the tallest, some 1.2m high at the SW, may have acted as portals. (8a)
Prehistoric stone circle is visible on air photographs, centred at NY 8021 7120. Only some of the stones of the circle are visible. (8b-c)
General association with HER 7843 (Bronze Age round cairns), HER 22626 (two mounds). (8)
N7835
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1956; A S Phillips
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1965; R Lewis
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Hadrian's Wall Landscape from Chesters to Greenhead 1999; T GATES
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1965; R Lewis
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Hadrian's Wall Landscape from Chesters to Greenhead 1999; T GATES
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
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