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Birkrigg stone circle

Archaeological site in Cumbria, England

Field	Value
name	Birkrigg stone circle
image	Birkrigg stone circle.JPG
caption	Birkrigg stone circle
map_type	United Kingdom South Lakeland#Cumbria
map_caption	Location in South Lakeland##Location in Cumbria
map_dot_label	Birkrigg stone circle
location	Ulverston

coordinates
type	Stone circle
epochs	Neolithic / Bronze Age

The Birkrigg stone circle (also known as the Druid's Temple or Druids' Circle) is a Bronze Age stone circle on Birkrigg Common, two miles south of Ulverston in the English county of Cumbria. It dates to between 1700 and 1400 BC.

Description

The circle consists of two rings of stones, the outer measuring 26 m and consisting of 15 stones and the inner being 9 m wide and consisting of 10 stones. None of the stones is more than 0.6m tall.

Limited excavation within the inner circle in 1911 found an upper and lower pavement of cobbles. Below the lower layer of cobbles five cremations were uncovered, three in pits, one on a layer of cobbles and one covered by an inverted urn. A second excavation in 1921 produced a few small stone implements which the excavator thought might be a pestle, a palate and a piece of red ochre, and which might therefore have had a ceremonial use.

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