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    04 CUMBRIA CASTLERIGG

    Nov 23, 2023 2 minutes

    4.6 miles/7.4km

    3 hours

    Moderate

    182m

    Walked by Vivienne Crow

    What might it have been like, 5,000 years ago, to gather at Castlerigg Stone Circle and watch the sun disappear behind Lakeland mountains on the winter solstice?

    Did the people of the Stone Age build this monument as a calendar to mark thetime? Or as a religious site? Maybe it was a trading centre, a theory suggested after Victorian archaeologists discovered axe heads from nearby Langdale here.

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