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Fancarl Top stone circle is a Bronze Age monument located on moorland in Yorkshire. The circle comprises a ring of standing stones, characteristic of ceremonial and ritual sites constructed during the second millennium before Christ. Like many upland stone circles in northern England, it reflects the symbolic and religious practices of Bronze Age communities who inhabited these exposed landscapes. The monument remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement patterns and ritual activity in the Yorkshire Pennines.
Fancarl Top stone circle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008781. View the official record →
Fancarl Top stone circle is a Bronze Age monument located on moorland in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008781.
Fancarl Top stone circle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1008781.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rock with at least five cup marks and a sinuous groove mark 615m NNE of Ridge Lathe, Pinder Hawes Hill, Skyreholme (1.8 km), Rock with at least 24 cup marks, many interconnected by groove marks, 345m north west of High Lathe, Burnetts Ridge, Skyreholme (2.3 km), Rock with at least 30 cup marks, some joined by groove marks, near gate into Larnshaw from Forest Road, 420m north of High Lathe, Skyreholme (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Fancarl Top stone circle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Fancarl Top stone circle stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.