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FACTS
Greycroft
is not easy to get to:
The road alongside it has 'no parking' restrictions along
its whole length, due to the proximity of Sellafield nuclear
power station.
Originally
consisting of twelve stones, only ten now remain. The stones stand
about 1.3m high on average. It probably dates from around 2500BC.
The
stones, overlooked by Sellafield
In
1820 many of the stones were buried by James Fox, a farmer, who
said that the stones stopped him from ploughing the land. In 1949
pupils from Pelham House School in Calderbridge, unearthed and restored
the stones.
Whilst
digging they found a kerbed-cairn at the site, measuring 6.7m x 4.6m
which contained:
traces
of charcoal
bone
fragments
flint
flakes
a
scraper
Early
Bronze Age jet or lignite pulley-ring
grass or bracken & hawthorn berries - these show that the burial
took place in the autumn time. These are now at Tullie House Museum
and Art Gallery in Carlisle.
