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Birkrigg

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22: 452: 102:. Other scheduled monuments on Birkrigg are three round cairns and a "prehistoric enclosed hut circle settlement, an associated enclosure, and a bowl barrow". 64:. Birkrigg's peak is at 136 metres (446 ft), but its position as the high point on the east of the Furness Peninsula affords it extensive views to the 493: 517: 113:, and has been in public ownership since the sixteenth century. Today, Birkrigg is a popular recreation site crossed by several footpaths and 413: 370: 339: 308: 277: 246: 186: 527: 365: 334: 303: 272: 241: 212: 486: 366:"Prehistoric enclosed hut circle settlement, an associated enclosure, and a bowl barrow NNE of Appleby Slack (1013818)" 479: 21: 88: 161: 522: 99: 57: 451: 392: 45: 463: 512: 361: 330: 299: 268: 237: 208: 143: 69: 506: 77: 73: 65: 95: 335:"Round cairn on Birkrigg Common, 600m north west of High Sunbrick Farm (1013964)" 304:"Round cairn on Birkrigg Common, 520m north west of High Sunbrick Farm (1013965)" 25:
View from Birkrigg Common to Bardsea village and over the bay, with stone circle
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Goldie, Helen. "The legal protection of limestone pavements in Great Britain".
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Birkrigg has a long history of human inhabitation, and the common contains
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limestone
Ulverston
Furness Peninsula
Cumbria
England
limestone pavement
Lake District
Yorkshire Dales
Howgills
Morecambe Bay
Blackpool
Birkrigg stone circle
Bronze Age
stone circle
scheduled monument
Aldingham
Urswick
bridleways
doi
10.1007/BF00775300
"Birkrigg Common's Distant Past"


"A delightful ramble around Birkrigg Commo"
Historic England
"Druid's Circle (38039)"
Historic England
"Concentric stone circle on Birkrigg Common (1013501)"
National Heritage List for England

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