Kinniside Stone Circle

Kinniside Stone Circle (or Blakeley Raise Stone Circle) is a reconstructed stone circle in the civil parish of Ennerdale and Kinniside in Cumbria, England (grid reference NY060140).

Kinniside Stone Circle

Kinniside Stone Circle
Shown within Cumbria
Location	Cumbria
Coordinates	54.513013°N 3.452687°W / 54.513013; -3.452687
Type	Stone circle
History
Periods	Neolithic? / Bronze Age?

Description

Kinniside Stone Circle is situated next to the fell road from Ennerdale Bridge to Calder Bridge in Cumbria.^[1] It consists of 11 small stones of local granite with a possible cairn at its centre.^[2]

The circle was apparently dismantled in the 18th century by a farmer who used the stones for gate-posts.^[2] In 1925 a Doctor Quine of Frizington "restored" the stone circle, setting the stones in concrete.^[2] Whether or not he erected the stones in their original stone holes is unclear, and it is unlikely that all of the re-erected stones come from the original circle.^[2]