Low Longrigg (SW-NE)

Ordnance Survey map reference: NY 172028.

Landranger map number: 89.

Latitude: 54.4 degrees.

Longitude: degrees.

Architecture: Double ring with internal cairns.

Length of the major axis: (SW) 15.2 metres. (NE) 21.6 metres.

Length of the minor axis: (SW) 15.2 metres. (NE) 15.2 metres.

Height of the highest stone: ? metres.

Shape: (SW) Circle. (NE) Ellipse.

Number of stones in the circle originally: ?

Number of stones in the circle now: ?.

Impression of the site (10 amazing, 1 limp): 4

Burl rating of the circle: 3 (Ruined but recognisable).

Thom reference for the circle: - L1/6 Burnmoor A & B

Astronomical alignments from this circle: -.

Excavations undertaken at this circle:

Details of any finds at this circle: .

This circle is not in state care.

Access to the circle:

I did not visit the Low Longrigg site personally as on the day of my visit to near by Brats Hill and White Moss as I did not manage to find the time. However Richard Stroud visited the site in 2004 and kindly sent me two pictures of the rings which I include below.

The two rings of the circle stand about 20m apart on a SW-NE axis, both are overgrown and contain internal ring cairns. The NE site is the most ruinous.

To the immediate SE are a cluster of small cairns. One excavated by Aubrey Burl in 1974 contained no finds or even a cist and he concluded that they are clearance cairns showing evidence of a settlement in the bronze age.