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The Twelve Apostles consists of the remains of a stone circle with a diameter of about 15 metres. [5] The circle originally had between 16 and 20 stones, [1] but it is now reduced to 12 stones. [5] The stones are made from the local millstone grit. [1] All of the stones were fallen by the mid-20th-century and were lying loose upon the ground. [3]
The area around Ilkley has been continuously settled since at least the early Bronze Age, around 1800 BC; more than 250 cup and ring marks, and curved a swastika carving dating to the period have been found on rock outcrops, [3] and archaeological remains of dwellings are found on Ilkley Moor. A druidical stone circle, the Twelve Apostles Stone ...
Local traditions recorded in the nineteenth century associate the stones with the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, and link the removed twelfth stone with Judas Iscariot. [9] [10] W. C. Lukis notes that in one tradition the stones were said to be set up by the apostles. [10] The tallest upright stone is around 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) tall.
The Dales High Way starts at Saltaire, a World Heritage Site model village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, built by Titus Salt on the River Aire.It climbs up over Ilkley Moor, passing the Twelve Apostles stone circle and the Swastika Stone, and drops down to the outskirts of Addingham before rising to follow high ground south of the A65 road, including Skipton Moor, and then enters ...
Twelve Apostles in art; Twelve Apostles Stone Circle This page was last edited on 17 June 2024, at 07:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Grubstones circle is located on Burley Moor (to the east of Ilkley Moor). [1] It is situated below the top of the hill on a gentle south facing slope. [2] The circle is just over 800 metres south-east of the Twelve Apostles. [1] South-east of the circle there are several large cairns including The Skirtful of Stones. [3]
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A small stone circle (possibly a burial monument), known as the ‘Twelve Apostles’, was constructed 4,500 years ago, during the Early Bronze Age. [2] Serious interest in the rock art of Ilkley began after the publication of the "Prehistoric Rock Sculptures of Ilkley" in 1879 by Romilly Allen in the Journal of the British Archaeological ...