Craddock Moor stone circle
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Craddock Moor Stone Circle or Craddock Moor Circle is a stone circle located near Minions on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK. It is situated around half a mile Northwest of The Hurlers.{{cite book|author=Aubrey Burl|title=A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhWFB1JAjWsC&pg=PA32|access-date=19 March 2011|year=2005|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-11406-5|pages=32–}}
Description
The circle consists of sixteen fallen stones with one remaining possible stump, all considerably overgrown making it one of the harder circles to find on the moor. John Barnatt has suggested that the circle was situated so that the summit of Brown Willy marked the midsummer sunset.{{cite book|author=John Barnatt|title=Prehistoric Cornwall: the ceremonial monuments, p.73 & 198,|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OWBAAAAMAAJ|access-date=19 March 2011|year=1982|publisher=Turnstone Press|isbn=978-0-85500-129-2}}
It is nearby to Craddock Moor stone row and an embanked enclosure. Christopher Tilley noted what he called a "possible axis of movement" linking the stone row, an embanked enclosure, the circle and the Hurlers. As these cannot be seen from each other, he commented "It is difficult to imagine how such a striking alignment could occur purely by chance."{{cite book|author=Christopher Tilley|title=INTERPRETING LANDSCAPES: GEOLOGIES, TOPOGRAPHIES, IDENTITIES; EXPLORATIONS IN LANDSCAPE PHENOMENOLOGY 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uk-1r0dtefgC&pg=PA401|access-date=19 March 2011|date=15 July 2010|publisher=Left Coast Press|isbn=978-1-59874-374-6|page=402}}
Archaeology
One of the first archaeological surveys of Bodmin Moor, including Craddock Moor Circle was carried out c. 1800 by Nicholas Johnson and Peter Rose.{{cite book|author1=Prehistoric Society (London|author2=England)|author3=University of Cambridge. University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology|title=Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOUhAQAAIAAJ|access-date=19 March 2011|date=1 January 1994|publisher=University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology}}
Folklore
Chris Barber and David Pykitt suggested that Craddock Moor is named after the ancient British King of Arthurian legend Caradoc who has been linked to the Pendragon Caractacus who fought the Romans.{{cite book|author1=Chris Barber|author2=David Pykitt|title=Journey to Avalon: the final discovery of King Arthur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsV7qXZa8kUC&pg=PT106|access-date=19 March 2011|date=1 November 1997|publisher=Weiser|isbn=978-1-57863-024-0|pages=106–}}
Literature
- {{cite book|author=William Borlase|title=Observations on the antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall ...: Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles ... With a summary of the religious, civil, and military state of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IqUQAAACAAJ|year=1754|publisher=Printed by W. Jackson, in the High-Strand}}
- {{cite book|author=William Copeland Borlase|title=Naenia Cornubiae: the cromlechs and tumuli of Cornwall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-eBAAAAMAAJ|year=1872|publisher=Llanerch|isbn=978-1-897853-36-8}}
- {{cite book|author=William C. Lukis|title=The prehistoric stone monuments of the British Isles: Cornwall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6WbQAAACAAJ|year=1885|publisher=Printed for Nichols and Sons for the Society of Antiquaries}}
- {{cite book|author=Aubrey Burl|title=A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhWFB1JAjWsC&pg=PA32|year=2005|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-11406-5}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/bronze_age/stone_circle/craddock_moor/craddock_moor.htm Cornwall's Archaeological Heritage - field guide to accessible sites - Craddock Moor stone circle]
- [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=818 Illustrated entry in the Megalithic Portal]
- [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/651/craddock_moor_circle.html Illustrated entry in the Modern Antiquarian]
- [http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=435956 Pastscape - English Heritage entry about Craddock Moor Stone Circle]
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