Delf Hill Stone Circle
The Delf Hill Stone Circle (also called Delph Hill Pasture) is located on Extwistle Moor, about 3.3 km northeast of Worsthorne at Hellclough Head, east of Burnley in Lancashire , England .
The stone circle described by Walter Bennett (1946) and Aubrey Burl (2000) appears to be a cairn border or a small tumulus , a burial mound. It was first mentioned in 1842 by the antiquarian FC Spencer. Spencer initiated an excavation that resulted in the discovery of two oddly marked earthen urns containing small fragments of human bones mixed with charcoal. The vessels were covered with slates , over which larger stones were placed for protection. The urns were found about 0.6 m below the surface of the field, in the middle of the circle, embedded in soft clay, interspersed with lots of charcoal.
The stone circle, about five meters in diameter, consists of six preserved stones, which are between 0.3 m and 0.6 m in size, and surround a low hill. Nineteenth-century reports spoke of five (1842) and seven (1874) stones.
literature
- Walter Bennett: History of Burnley - volume 1, Burnley Corporation 1946.
- Aubrey Burl: The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Britanny, Yale University Press 2000.
- Tattersall Wilkinson: Extwistle Moor, Burnley I: n Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, volume 11, 1893.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '59.4 " N , 2 ° 9' 8.3" W.