Totley Circle | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

Artigo Jan 8, 2008 17:01:52

Cairn with Cross
Old Trig Point
New Trig Point
Totley Circle

There's a lot going on up on Totley Moor. There's the cairn with a cross on top at 53° 18' 23.18" N, 1° 34' 8.30" W, which, as far as I can make out, stands exactly where the old trig point (1252 ft, 382 m) NOT the new trig point (395 m) used to stand.

I'm interested in the exact position of Totley Circle of course. stu and stubob, whom I presume to be one and the same person, suggest that it is approx. 100 m east-south-east. That would place it at the western tip of the heather-free wedge that can be clearly seen in Google Earth.

The heather-free circle between the cairn and the wedge would seem a more likely sight to me.

Would stu or stubob please reply?

Yours interestedly

Artigo

stubob Jan 8, 2008 21:26:43

Replying to Artigo

Hey up Artigo,

Itsa coupla years since I was there…..by cairn and cross do you mean the dirty great thing you can shelter in?
By the altitude I’m guessing so….and in that case you wanna head north from the cairn….maybe 100m….it was pre-gps days so best grid ref I can come up with is SK2883 7899.
The circle then was definitely, for the most part, heather covered, sections of the 3m wide banking were visible along with the two fallen stones in the northeast-ish and west.
Hope this helps

nice one
stu.

megadread Mar 12, 2008 12:35:15

Replying to Artigo

for anyone interested, i was at this site a few weeks back and the circle is easily found due to the grass being burned back and currently around an inch high, the cross atop the cairn has dissapeared though.

megadread Jul 15, 2008 11:56:34

Replying to Artigo

Just looked on the TMA's google earth and the marker looks way out to me.
My pics match the ones on here perfectly. ? Is the marker just a rough guide.
Also just noticed if you set the altitude to around 1800 ft a circular feature can be seen fractionally west of north at 53 18'24.78n 1 34'08.77 ?