Shap Stone Avenue

Shap Stone Avenue sits near the centre of the Eden Valley, Cumbria [1]. It is broadly grouped into a category of monuments dubbed by Aubrey Burl, as 'Cumbrian Circles': large, uncluttered enclosures of stone [1]. The monuments around Shap form a northwest alignment with several monuments in the Eden Valley [1]. A significant burial cairn, known as 'Skellaw Hill', is found at the avenue's northern end, though most stones have now been lost [1]. The Goggleby Stone is about ten feet high and has a cup mark on its north face [1]. Tom Clare suggests that the avenues date to the Late Neolithic period (approximately 3,200 - 2,500 BC), based upon evidence supplied by the Goggleby Stone [1].