Blakey Topping Standing Stones

Blakey Topping Standing Stones are the remains of a probable Bronze Age stone circle at the foot of Blakey Topping hill in the North York Moors. Robert Knox recorded three large standing stones in 1855, with the tallest measuring nine feet high, forming a triangle within an estimated circle diameter of 18 yards. The Elgees documented the site in 1930, noting ground hollows suggesting additional lost stones. Archaeologists Aubrey Burl and John Barnatt interpreted the surviving stones as remnants of a stone circle dating from the late Neolithic to Bronze Age (c.3000-800 BC). Some stones were later repurposed as gateposts and wall material.