Drawings Stone circle on Cloughton Moor, North Yorkshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.188
Artist/Designer/Maker
Tissiman, John - Attributed to
Production date
1852
Material
paper
pencil
pencil
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 334mm
Width: 263mm
Width: 263mm
Inscriptions
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Circle of Stones upon Cloughton Moor
near which the carved stones were found.
near which the carved stones were found.
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Diam. 52 feet.
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RAVEN HILL - VAULT STONE
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Stone with pecked holes found within the circle.
References
Reference (free text)
John Tissiman, 'Celtic Remains from a Tumulus near Scarborough', Archaeologia 34 (1852): 446-9.
Illustrations (Engravings), pp. 447 and 448.
Reference (free text)
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at York, July, 1846 (London: Archaeological Institute, 1848), pp. 12-13.
'Ground-plan, exhibiting the position of the stones which compose a 'Druidical' circle, on Cloughton Moor, north-west of Scarborough...Designed, in May, 1846, by Mr. Edward H. Hebden, and communicated to the Institute by Dr. Travis, of Scarborough.' This reference refers to the plan of the stone circle at MS 700/III/3 61.