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#stonecircles

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thesweetcheat

A hot and muggy walk on the North York Moors today, making good use of public transport to revisit two stone circles we haven't been to for 25 years and a stone row that we skipped back then. The Esk Valley train line and the Coastliner bus service got us to the Low and High Bridestones and Breckon Howe barrow on Sleights Moor (walking up from Grosmont) and then to Blakey Topping stone circle (walking from the Hole of Horcum).

A row of grey-green gritstone standing stones running across a moorland hillside. The stones are surrounded by reedy grass and low heather. The two nearest stones are the tallest in the row. Beyond the stones the hillside drops away to the right. Farm buildings can be seen amongst green fields beyond, and higher moorland rises on the skyline far right. It's sunny and very, very warm.
A very tall and thin standing stone, over 7 feet tall, on a moorland plateau. The stone is a slab of holey limestone. The stone leans slightly to the left. Long thin vertical cracks run up the stone, where idiots have hammered coins into the crevices because they are stupid. The stone is surrounded by low heather, which is brightened patches of purple flowers. It's a lovely sunny day and there are long views to further moorland ridges on the distant skyline.
A very large Bronze Age round barrow covered in heather. The barrow stands on the highest point of this Moor. A small standing stone has been placed on tip of the barrow and makes this a very prominent landmark. A couple of small upright stones can be seen in the foreground close to the base of the barrow but it's unclear if they were part of it.
A large slab of reddish sandstone stands in a cropped grass field. It leans to the right. A further, much smaller stone stands in the background to the right. The scene is sunny but the cloud cover is thickening on the left of the blue sky.
#NorthYorkMoors#PublicTransport#StoneCircles
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Helen Clayton

Grey Wethers #StoneCircles. Legend has it a flock of #sheep turned to stone by Belus the Sun God to punish a greedy peasant.

‘…every Midsummer Eve, at midnight, the stones take their former shapes, and, as sheep, graze till morning upon the green slopes of Sittaford Tor…should anyone succeed in shearing one of these sheep ere sunrise, its fleece, if sprinkled with water that may be found in a deep rock basin on top of Kestor, will turn to gold.’

dartmoor.gov.uk/learning/dartm

A photo of two granite stone circles side by side - the one on the right closer to the camera - within a moorland plateau of long, pale golden-brown grass. A path of short green grass cuts through the centre of the nearest circle. Running diagonally across the moorland behind the circles is a drystone wall leading uphill slightly to a conifer forest on the right, on the skyline. The forest stops abruptly left of centre where the trees have been felled, just a few bare trunks standing amid the brash. The sky is a pale watery blue with low white fluffy clouds.
#StandingStoneSunday
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