White Moss

Nearest town:
Ambleside (20km ENE)
OS reference:
NY172024
OS sheets:
89, 90
Latitude:
54° 24' 36.2 N
Longitude:
3° 16' 33.22 W
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Images

Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by postman

Scafell at its broodiest, and possibly harbouring soon to be rescued walkers too stoned to walk. amateurs.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 28, 2017
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White Moss east circle, Low Longrigg stone circles are up the hill in the background, try and head for the black dot between them.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 28, 2017
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by postman

A lovely little circle is White Moss east, it doesn’t have the awe factor of Castlerigg or Swinside, but it has something few other sites have, if you know what it is, answers on a postcard to.........

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 28, 2017
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by postman

The more western of the two circles, two cairns, one within one without.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 28, 2017
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by postman

This cairn looks like it might still have a lid on it’s cist, it is in the circle, another cairn awaits just outside it.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Sep 28, 2017
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by ironstone

View through the eastern circle to the western one, the sea faintly visible on the horizon through the gap in the hills.

ironstone
ironstone May 31, 2016
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by GLADMAN

Hostile conditions... but then these are proper upland stone circles...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Feb 14, 2016
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by GLADMAN

Wonderful.......... in a dark, forbidding sort of way....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jan 10, 2011
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

29/04/06 White Moss from the knoll, looking WNW. What would we do without knolls?

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The Eternal
The Eternal May 14, 2006
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

29/04/06 White Moss N circle, E edge, looking N. Scafell behind.

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The Eternal
The Eternal May 14, 2006
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

29/04/06 White Moss N circle, S edge, looking W. Whin Rigg – Illgill Head ridge in the background.

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The Eternal
The Eternal May 14, 2006
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

29/04/06 White Moss N circle, S edge looking E. Harter Fell behind.

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The Eternal
The Eternal May 14, 2006
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

29/04/06 White Moss, from the S circle looking along the SE-NE axis.

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The Eternal
The Eternal May 14, 2006
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

29/04/06 White Moss, from the SE edge of the S circle looking NE.

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The Eternal May 14, 2006
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29/04/06 White Moss, looking SW into the N circle of White Moss.

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The Eternal
The Eternal May 14, 2006
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

Whit Moss and Brats Hill stone circles in their landscape, from the N. Viewed from the slopes of Slight Side, below Scafell.

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The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 11, 2005
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

Lookin S through White Moss NE circle, with the SW circle in the background to the left.

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The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 11, 2005
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

White Moss, inside the NE stone circle, looking to the SW stone circle.

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The Eternal Sep 11, 2005
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

Wall enclosure-type feature on the E side of White Moss stone circles, looking NW.

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The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 11, 2005
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

Wall enclosure-type feature on the E side of White Moss stone circles, looking SW.

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The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 11, 2005
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by The Eternal

White Moss circles from Brats Hill. Looking westwards to the shallow col between Whin Rigg (left) and Illgill Head (right).

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The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 11, 2005
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by Moth

Crap scan – will replace when I can get a better one, but it gives a vague idea of the scale of the complex: White Moss (slightly below centre and right) and Brats Hill (to right of dark patch in centre – honest) from Low Longrigg

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Aug 30, 2003
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by Moth

White Moss WSW circle from ENE circle

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Moth
Moth Aug 30, 2003
Image of White Moss (Stone Circle) by Moth

White Moss ENE circle from WSW circle

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Moth Aug 30, 2003
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White Moss circles from Brats Hill circle

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Moth Aug 30, 2003

Articles

White Moss

GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jan 10, 2011

Set a little to the north-west of the wonderful Brat’s Hill stone circle enclosing its myriad cairns, the paired stone circles upon White Moss would need to be very special indeed to sustain the drama – I think that’s the correct word – and maintain the feeling of evocative abandon experienced by this wide-eyed traveller up here upon this wild moor. Fortunately, they are.... Oh yes! With bells on. In fact I have to admit these two are arguably my finest monuments in Lakeland for sheer atmospheric vibe, affecting me no end. In fact you could say to the nth degree. No, really. Although I was never any good at algebra or trigonometry at school, Thom might well have approved of the analogy. Perhaps, perhaps not.

That other great stone circle luminary, Aubrey Burl, cites the circles as being ‘ruinous’. Maybe, but when you’re used to tiny Welsh upland ‘circles as I am, these are nothing less than ‘substantial’ in comparison. Mist swirls evocatively – evocatively as long as it doesn’t head this way, that is – across and around the long summit crest of Illgill Head to the north, the far flank of which plunges precipitously, albeit unseen, to the depths of Wast Water. To the north-east Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain, is itself cloaked in a mantle of grey vapour. So what’s new? Well, viewing it from inside an enigmatic stone circle, for starters. I swear if you was to look up ‘evocative’, or, say, ‘ethereal’ in the Oxford English Dictionary there would be an image of White Moss. Ok, ok, there isn’t. But there bloody well should be.

Both circles have ‘just’ the single cairn, placed centrally. It is more than enough, but Burnmoor doesn’t let the visitor off the emotional hook that easily. No, look further to the north-east and two more stone circles are visible upon Low Longrigg. Go on. You know you must. You have no choice in the matter.

themodernantiquarian.com/post/93174/fieldnotes/low_longrigg.html

White Moss

The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 11, 2005

Reached here with Pie Eater, just after visiting Brats Hill. We’re even more confused, due to the nearness of Brats Hill, plus the strange wall that looks like an enclosure. Also by the two circles. What went on here? Today all was peaceful, and had a nice feeling. But I’ve been here when the clouds are low on the fells, and a cold rain rakes across Burnmoor (one word, not two), and then the mystery of the place is all pervading, and a sense of doom pervades. Woooooo.

White Moss

IronMan
IronMan Mar 4, 2002

On the approach to the Brat’s Hill complex the first circle you will probably see is one of the White Moss circles. We did just that, only to turn round and notice we’d completely missed the Brat’s Hill circle itself. Of the two, the one nearest the path is in the best condition, and in terms of setting, you couldn’t ask for more.

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