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Oddendale is a hamlet in
Oddendale has a stone circle nearby, (), part of the complex of cairns, stone circles and standing stones that includes the ' Shap Stone Avenue' of monuments. The site has benefitted from an extensive and relatively recent (1997) excavation that revealed various stages in the monument's history: firstly, two concentric circles of oak wooden posts (dating to the Neolithic, c. 2,872–2,350 BC); followed by their removal and replacement with stone cappings of pink granite; followed by an Early Bronze Age
The Megalithic Portal: Oddendale
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Cumbria
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, England, near the large village of Shap
Shap is a linear village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Westmorland. The parish had a population of 1,221 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,264 at the 2011 ...
. For transport there is the M6 motorway
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and the A6 road This is a list of roads designated A6.
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History
Oddendale stone circle
Oddendale has a stone circle nearby, (), part of the complex of cairns, stone circles and standing stones that includes the ' Shap Stone Avenue' of monuments. The site has benefitted from an extensive and relatively recent (1997) excavation that revealed various stages in the monument's history: firstly, two concentric circles of oak wooden posts (dating to the Neolithic, c. 2,872–2,350 BC); followed by their removal and replacement with stone cappings of pink granite; followed by an Early Bronze Age ring cairn
A ring cairn (also correctly termed a ring bank enclosure, but sometimes wrongly described as a ring barrow) is a circular or slightly oval, ring-shaped, low (maximum 0.5 metres high) embankment, several metres wide and from 8 to 20 metres in ...
built over the inner circle surfaced with blue/gray stones and yellow/white pieces of flat limestone, with cremated bone, pottery and other 'token' grave goods; and then a fourth stage which saw the addition of a pink granite platform on to the side of the cairn, which itself had a kerb of red stones around it.
The colouring of the stones may have had ritualistic significance. The replacement of the wooden circles by stone ones is a feature shared with some other monuments and may represent the replacement of concern for the living (and the Sun) by devotion to the dead (and the Moon or Sunset).
A second circle and ring cairn was excavated not far away at .Clare, 2007, p.95
See also
*Listed buildings in Crosby Ravensworth
Crosby Ravensworth is a civil parish in the Eden District, Cumbria, England. It contains 53 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, six are a ...
References
External links
The Megalithic Portal: Oddendale
*http://www.british-towns.net/cy/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=16604 Hamlets in Cumbria Crosby Ravensworth Archaeological sites in Cumbria Stone circles in Cumbria {{Cumbria-geo-stub