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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]
[12] [1] The Easthill stone circle is 3¾ miles SSW west of the Twelve Apostles. [13] There was another stone circle a mile east near the River Nith but this was destroyed and used for building material before the New Statistical Account was compiled. [8] [3] Nearby are two cursuses, one of which, if extended, would run towards the circle. [1]
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 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 ...
A photograph of the Swastika Stone alongside its replica carving and the view it overlooks from Woodhouse Crag. On the Woodhouse Crag on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor is a swastika-shaped pattern engraved in a stone, known as the Swastika Stone, [4] also referred to as a fylfot. The image at the bottom-right of the picture is a 20th-century ...