Castlerigg Stone Circle

Castlerigg Stone Circle: The mysterious Castlerigg Stone Circle, alos known as the 'Carles and the Druids’ Circle', is over 5000 years old and consists of 38 ancient stones of various sizes and shapes as discussed in Early Man in History at Violations.

Some of the stones are over five feet tall and there is an anomaly at Castlerigg as inside the eastern end of the circle there is a group of 10 stones forming a rectangular enclosure known as a cove, the purpose of which remains a mystery. Various theories have been proposed about the alignment of the stones, with their position reflecting the rising and settings of the moon and the equinoxes.

The Castlerigg Stone Circle has been the focus of one well-recorded sighting of strange light phenomena. In 1919 a man called T. Singleton and his friend watched as white light-balls moved slowly over the stones.

Strange lights seem to be a recurring theme at ancient sites throughout the world, they may have been one of the reasons ancient man built monuments at specific sites, perhaps reflecting the existence of ley lines, one of which starts at the Castlerigg Stone Circle and ends twenty four miles away at Fiends Fell passing through two other stone circles in its path.