The Cockpit Stone Circle
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Many of the stones still standing.
The cockpit stone circle stands on a small plateau of land on the northwest side of moor divock before the land drops steeply away down to ullswater and has fine views across to the derwent fells to the northwest.
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The cockpit stone circle. 44 images 5 fieldnotes 1 weblink plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the uk ireland. The cockpit is one of the most impressive. After following a section of the high street roman road there is a new sign showing distances to the nearby forts. There are 27 of them arranged on the inside of a low bank or henge.
The cockpit stone circle on the modern antiquarian the uk irelands most popular megalithic community website. It might not be stonehenge or avebury which at a quarter of a mile is britains largest stone circle but this group of stones is a significant monument that speaks of an entirely different age. Historians disagree on the purpose of stone circles and it remains a mystery as to whether the cockpit was intended for rituals a sign of landownership or something else. The cockpit stone circle.
Its a circular stone bank 27 metres 90 feet across with larger stones set into its inner face. It stands at a crossroad of two trading routes like a bronze age penrith which stands at the crossroads of the m6 and the a66. It consists of a low stone bank about 28 metres in diameter and set into this bank are around 75 stones some standing some fallen with the tallest stone being just less than a. The adjacent clearance cairns are also well preserved.
2 the cockpit stone circle. This is one of several ancient monuments on the moor and the largest. High above ullswater the windswept upland known as moor divock is scattered with prehistoric monuments. Take time to wander in and around the circle of stones here.
From the north a track led from. It consists of a low penannular bank of stones 3 metres wide and with an internal diameter of about 26m which surrounds a. Ullswater and surrounding fells. Following this path will bring you to the cockpit.
Cockpit stone circle a bronze age crossroads. The cockpit above by far the largest and most impressive of the moor divock circles is about 1km to the west of the two smaller circlesit is likely that the stone circles and burial mounds belong to the bronze age and the settlement may be connected to them. Askham fell and barton fell have more than 100 bronze age sites and cockpit stone circle is the most obvious and the most well known. The cockpit stone circle.
Like all stone circles its original purpose is a mystery. Click for larger version. The cockpit is a good example of a large regular stone circle.