Castlerigg stone circle and two bowl barrows — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Forty-eight stones circle thirty-two metres of Castlerigg, marking a late Neolithic ritual place near Keswick in Cumberland around 3000 BCE. Two bowl barrows beside the ring suggest Bronze Age people still trusted the ground enough to bury their dead there. The stones stand on high fells, not hidden in a field, so the makers chose a place where the sky and horizon could join the ceremony.

The National Heritage List for England records Castlerigg stone circle and two bowl barrows as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Castlerigg stone circle and two bowl barrows were constructed by Neolithic or early Bronze Age communities around 3000–2500 BCE. It is important as one of the finest and most accessible prehistoric stone circles in the Lake District, reflecting early ceremonial and social practices in northern England.

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