Shapbeck plantation
Shapbeck Plantation ( English Shapbeck Plantation - also Shapbeck Stone Circle or Thrimby called) is a concentric stone circle consisting of three rings at Shap and Little Strickland, south of Penrith , near the A6 / M6 roads in Cumbria , England .
Only a few stones stand upright in the heavily overgrown stone circle. Others appear to be disturbed and not in situ . The diameter of the outer ring is about 20.5 m, it consisted of 28 stones. The middle ring is oval and measures approximately 8.0 × 10 m. He had 18 stones. The smallest ring is only two meters in diameter and has seven stones. An inner cairn with large curbs lies in a circle.
The stone circle of Wilson Scar is located about 650 m away in the "Hanson Shap Beck Limestone Quarry" .
literature
- Aubrey Burl (text), Max Milligan (photographer): Circles of Stone. The prehistoric rings of Britain and Ireland. The Harvill Press, London 1999, ISBN 1-86046-661-3 .
- Aubrey Burl: The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. Yale University Press, New Haven 2000, ISBN 978-0-300-08347-7 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 33 ′ 44.8 " N , 2 ° 41 ′ 39.6" W.