Ewden Beck (Broomhead I)

Ordnance Survey map reference: SK 238966.

Landranger map number: 110.

Latitude: 53.28 degrees.

Longitude: -1.385 degrees.

Architecture: Embanked ?.

Length of the major axis: 18.8 metres.

Length of the minor axis: 18.8 metres.

Height of the highest stone: 0.8 metres.

Shape: Circle.

Number of stones in the circle originally: .

Number of stones in the circle now: 2.

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

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

Thom reference for the circle: -.

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:

Almost opposite the entrance to Broomhead Hall lies a track that leads across the moors. The track is a public footpath and the remains of the Broomhead circle lie about 100m to the right of this track where the it comes to a sharp bend. A single stone can been seen within the deep heather from this main public footpath. Broomhead I is not marked on the Landranger OS maps as a stone circle. A prehistoric enclosure marked on the map at the same co-ordinates as the circle may be the same site but this is not at all obvious or certain.

The circle is not at all obvious. It is now entirely covered in deep heather and only 3 stones can clearly be defined. One of these stands 0.8m tall and is the largest stone on the surrounding moorland. There is a large flat stone next to it and a scatter of rubble like stones close by to the south. Another stone stands 0.6m high several meters to the SE with a smaller stone close by. It is not at all clear as to whether these stones are the remains of the circle. If they are then it is clearly in an unrecognisable and ruinous state and certainly not worth visiting.

Two of the remaining stones of the circle.

This stone is the only obvious stone visible at the site.