This article/blog post was written and published by Linden Alexander Pentecost, and was published late in the day on the 23rd of March 2026. Note that earlier today I published another unrelated blog post on this website and that yesterday I published a large article on a different website, tomorrow I will publish another new PDF-only book via yet another website. This article in front of you is unrelated to and separate from any and all of my other publications. No AI was used in this article, nor in any of my written works. This article was published only on this UK website and was published in the UK, I the author am also from the UK and am a resident of the UK. The four photos in this article were also taken by me the author. The photos like the article in general have not been published before, the photo descriptions in italics also contain important information not in the main text. This article/blog post contains a total of 2242 words. Two of the photos show different parts of the stone row in question, whilst the last two photos show different parts of Summerhouse Stone Circle, many other possible ancient sites newly noticed, and other topics are also discussed.
I really like Summerhouse Stone circle and its general "vibe". In several other publications, including in some of the blog posts on this website, I have discussed ancient sites and possible ancient sites in the region around Carnforth and Yealland in northern Lancashire. Apart from Hunting Hill, which is really impressive, but which hardly anybody seems to know about, the other officially known (outside of my publications) megalithic site in this region, is the stone circle on Summerhouse Hill, not far from Leighton Hall, but many think this is not a stone circle, because, if it is, a lot of the stones have been removed, and the diametre of the circle is pretty enormous. There are some pre-Celtic names in this area which I have discussed elsewhere, but I would like to note that the name Yealand Redmayne may take its -mayne element from a distant relative to the Welsh word maen - "stone" Cornish mên - "stone", Lonsdale dialect man - "a pile of rocks", etc.
I personally am inclined to think that Summerhouse Hill Stone Circle is - like many sites in this region, a megalithic site which does not easily fit into the categories that archaeologists in Britain generally use to identify megalithic sites. I am inclined to believe that it is a megalithic site, but that to use the common definition of what a stone circle is, to define this site, may prove unsuccessful. That the megalithic sites in this region do not easily fit into the categories used elsewhere also probably explains why, in part, the megalithic sites in this area are by and large not recognised, known about, or, in the case of all but two of them near Carnforth - outside of my publications they are not even discussed. People have seen them and wondered about them I think for a long time, but this part of North Lancashire has very little community awareness of the region's ancient history and indigenous beliefs, which is a huge shame, because both of these are very abundant when you know where to look and how to identify them.
A cairn at Summerhouse Hill, a round cairn, is known to be an ancient site, this is not disputed. The existence of the circle is disputed, and other potential megalithic sites, literally within a hundred metres distance of the aforementioned, seem not to have been noticed or recognised at all. I have already discussed others of the possible ancient sites near Leighton Hall and Yealand, but there are others not yet discussed.
In the woods towards Leighton Hall and not far from Summerhouse Stone Circle, LIDAR maps appear to show what are some very large lumps of limestone or possible other structures in the woods, on private land. The slope from Summerhouse Hill down to Leighton Hall has many very large limestone rocks, which I think cannot all be erratics. The Three Brothers is a possible megalithic site nearby which is also known about but is generally explained away as a natural collection of boulders, I am not convinced though. This does not even touch upon the subject of the other massive rocks on the slope above Leighton Hall, which are also outside of the Summerhouse Stone Circle and its alignments. I will not discuss Warton Crag's megalithic sites here, many of which I have not yet discussed, but it would be too much to focus upon in this article. I have also mentioned some time ago in a couple of places that I saw possible standing stones near Leighton Hall, at the coordinates of: 54.165849, -2.779669 . I have since visited these stones, and I am more inclined to think that this was an outcrop or possible limestone rock which was then split into two, nevertheless the site looks as though it has been altered by mankind. Not far away, the fence line going north from around the point: 54.166069, -2.779653 - this fence line is above a wall that is in places megalithic, it is not megalithic on the same scale that the walls at Hunting Hill are for example, but I think parts of this wall can be considered to be megalithic in nature, it reminds me of some of the massive Iron-Age and Bronze-Age (and medieval) style walls to the northeast. Note also that the name "The Three Brothers" may be implying something animistic, and it certainly seems to imply that, like elsewhere, these three particular stones were considered in a sense to be living entities, hence them being referred to as Brothers.
Another interesting feature which appears on LIDAR maps, is an earthwork type feature located at: 54.168126, -2.777524. This looks like a circular enclosure type feature, it lies more or less due west of Deepdale Pond to the east, and is roughly the same size as the lower basin in which Deepdale Pond is located. This feature would be a very prime location for an archaeological excavation in my opinion, if of course this was the wish of the landowners, and hopefully it would be conducted respectfully.
Another feature which more or less joins onto the outer circle of Summerhouse Stone Circle is what appears to be a stone row. This row lies close to some of the other large limestone rocks, not in Summerhouse Stone Circle, and at first it looks a bit like something more recent, and perhaps the part of the stone row overlooking Leighton Hall has indeed been rebuilt, but, when the footpath goes due south towards Peter Lane, one more or less follows this stone row in the woods, and it does indeed look just like many of the other megalithic wall structures and stone rows in this area, and in other parts of Cumbria. The central part of this potential stone row is located approximately at the coordinates of: 54.160902, -2.767734 . Below are two photos showing different parts of this possible stone row, followed by two pictures of Summerhouse Hill Stone Circle, there are also photo descriptions in italics above each of the photos, as per.
Photo below: part of the possible stone row which heads from the side of Summerhouse Hill facing Leighton Hall, and continues close to the footpath towards the road to Warton, the stone row appears to stop right at the wall next to the road. Note the large size of these stones, one certainly does not get the impression that they were moved here recently. I also find it inconceivable why they might be here unless this was a stone row. There is also another megalithic wall not far away on Warton Crag, also of unknown origin, I have discussed the aforementioned wall elsewhere, but it is more tightly fitting together than the stone row structure shown in the photo below:
Photo below: another view of the possible stone row close to Summerhouse Hill and leading from it. Note the way that certain parts of the stone row are seemingly missing. Again, despite that the area of this stone row overlooking Leighton Hall looks more recent, when you see it in the woods for example like in the different section shown in the photo below, with parts of it missing, it clearly, to me anyway, appears very old.
Photo below: two of the stones that form a part of the Summerhouse Stone Circle complex, although I am not sure if the particular two stones in the photo below are exactly aligned to the circle, some of them are, some of them are not. The stones are also of very large size.
Photo below: another of the stones at Summerhouse Stone Circle, this one appears to be a split rock, akin to others I have seen in this area, and likely to the one which I thought originally was standing stones close to Leighton Moss. I do not think that this rock was split recently for material in building the folly that was created in the past, out of pieces of this stone circle, I rather think that the stone shown in the photo below was split deliberately. I have come across similar examples elsewhere in Cumbria, and where the stone is "split" appears to be on an alignment of some kind. There is also for example a very good example of this I think near Devoke Water in West Cumbria, which I will discuss in a future publication.
I hope you enjoyed this article and that it helps in some way to encourage further research into these places, but also I hope above all that it encourages greater acknowledgement and respect towards them. Even if the British media and mainstream academia might create the impression in someone's mind that these sites are merely historical information and data, they are actually sacred, living, indigenous, ancestral places, and this always should be considered and respected foremost before any kind of further research goes on. Of course any intrusive further research like excavation will need all the correct permissions etc, and I am speaking about this possibility purely in hypothetical terms. But it depresses me and saddens that if a place gets excavated, particularly a burial site, the bones are stuck in museums, they are treated like objects, the wishes and rituals, rites and worldview of our ancestors is ignored because the academic establishment at a collective level does not regard animism, paganism and indigenous history as important enough, and this is not only extremely saddening but it is also deeply wrong. I will be happy, if we never excavate or if archaeologists never notice these places until humanity is ready, because frankly, the mainstream academic establishment, not individuals, but the system, does not deserve to claim our indigenous past, and I am in a sense very glad that these sites have been largely ignored until now.
But there is also a danger to these sites if we do not recognise and respect them, and this is why I think it is important to share their existence and location. This is not about archaeologists doing university accepted and funded projects, it is about the people of Britain acknowledging and helping to protect and safeguard their own history from further damage by the rich and powerful and from further damage by the establishments, regardless of whatever particular agenda is being peddled at any particular time - these sites are thousands of years old, they are timeless, we have a duty to acknowledge them. If the establishments are without spirituality and respect, that is up to them, if they want to write history a particular way, and to just pick and choose the bits that suit their agenda - let them tell their history, and in doing so they will end up talking to themselves, because so many of us no-longer trust them; they are not representative of the majority and we do not have to be involved with their agendas. The responsibility to acknowledge, and peacefully, of course, try to safeguard and protect our prehistoric heritage, ultimately comes down to us, the everyday people, and whether or not we care. I certainly care - will you all help humanity to remember itself?
Thank you for reading this article/blog post. P.s. I am good friends with some archaeologists, I like them as people, and I have no issue with what people study, what they love, what they are experts in, I do not have this at all. What is a problem is the structure of academia in general and how it often enables certain agendas and viewpoints to be elevated in a way which is often totally inaccurate, wrong, and is a spit in the face to our ancestors - and a spit in the face to all ancestral peoples. Let us try and remember our ancestors again, and be kind of them, and listen. This article is dedicated to the ancestors and people of the Morecambe Bay area. Note that yesterday in my longer article on a different website I discuss other stone circles and much more.
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