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Bawd Stone Natural Rock Feature |
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Berry Ring Hillfort |
Berth Hill
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Brund Low Round Barrow(s) |
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Bury Bank Hillfort |
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Cadborough Hill Hillfort |
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Calton Round Barrow(s) |
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Castle Ring Hillfort |
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Cauldon Lowe Round Barrow(s) |
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The Devil's Ring and Finger Standing Stones |
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Dun Low Round Barrow(s) |
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Gratton Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Gun Hill Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Kinver Camp Hillfort |
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Long Low Bank Barrow |
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Lud's Church Natural Rock Feature |
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12 sites Manifold Valley Caves Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Milford Round Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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2 sites Musden Low Round Barrow(s) |
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Narrowdale Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Norbury Round Barrow(s) |
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Over Low
Cairn(s)
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Saxons' Lowe Round Barrow(s) |
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Stanshope Pasture Round Barrow(s) |
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Swinscoe Round Barrow(s) |
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Sycamore Cave Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Thorswood Barrow Cemetery |
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Top Low Round Barrow(s) |
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Weaver Hills Barrow Cemetery |
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Webb Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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1 site Wetton Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Wetton Low Cairn(s) |
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Wolfscote Hill Cairn(s) |
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Top Low (Round Barrow(s)) — Miscellaneous |
| This elongated barrow has nearly five pages devoted to it in Bateman's "Ten years diggings" book which goes into detail about the various cists and bone remains found. In cist 4 on the plan he found 'the skeleton of a young hog inside a roughly built cist' and he later notes 'we are inclined to assign the post of honour to the cist containing the hog, which was placed nearest the centre'. |
Posted by Chris Collyer10th March 2010ce |
Top Low (Round Barrow(s)) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by Chris Collyer 10th March 2010ce |
The Devil's Ring and Finger (Standing Stones) — Images |
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Posted by faerygirl16th January 2010ce |
The Devil's Ring and Finger (Standing Stones) — Fieldnotes |
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As there isn't much around here to see (ah, the midlands) I was pleased to find this site in daytrip-distance and set off with plenty of daylight hours remaining only to get stuck on the M6. Fabulous. Got to Mucklestone near Market Drayton at about 3pm, well in time to see what we wanted to see before it got dark, only to discover that there isn't a thing in Mucklestone! Lots of driving around country lanes bought me to the next town over, Norton in Hales, where I gave up trying to find it myself and asked a local if he knew (by any chance!) where the Devils RIng and Finger was... HE DID!! So, from St Chads church in Norton in Hales, you take a left and follow the road until it turns to the right, dont turn, stay on the road (Forge Lane/Road) and stay on this road as it turns into a track, and then a mostly mud and grass walkway until you arrive at a farm. At this point (as we still cant see anything) we assume we are in the wrong place and ask at the farm. The very nice lady directs us across the track, past the horse and over a gate into a field on the otherside of the stream. From there we follow the drystone wall up to a little copse and the monument is hiding at the back against a barbedwire fence. Its a shame for it really as its been moved at some point over the last 300years and it just "dumped" out of the way. But its considerably bigger than Men-an-Tol and worth a clamber through and a quick circumambulation. We were there for sunset, which came fast, and we had to leave quickly to avoid getting stranded in the boggy field below. Well worth the trip if you're in the area. |
Posted by faerygirl 16th January 2010ce |
Sycamore Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Folklore |
Who knows which barrow this could now refer to? it is / was somewhere on Ecton Hill, so near this cave. But it gives a flavour of the folklore that such places inspire.In the digging open a Low on Ecton hill near Warslow in this County, there were found mens bones as I was told of an extraordinary Size, which were preserved for some time by one Mr. Hamilton Vicar of Alstonfield; and I was inform'd of the like dugg up at Mare in the foundation of the Tower; but these being buryed again, or otherwise disposed of before I came there, I can say little to them.From Robert Plot's 'Natural History of Staffordshire' of 1686 (hence all the italics.) |
Posted by Rhiannon10th January 2010ce |
Lud's Church (Natural Rock Feature) — Folklore |
... the stupendous cleft in the rock between Swithamley and Warnford commonly call'd Lud-Church, which I found by measure 208 yards long, and at different places 30, 40, or 50. foot deep; the sides steeped and so hanging over, that it sometimes preserves Snow all the Summer, whereof they had signal proof at the Town of Leek on the 17 of July their Fair day, at which time of year a Wharnford Man brought a Sack of Snow thence, and poured it down at the Mercat Cross, telling the people that if any body wanted of that commodity, he could quickly help them to a 100 load on't.From chapter four of Robert Plot's 'Natural History of Staffordshire' of 1686. |
Posted by Rhiannon 29th December 2009ce |
Gun Hill (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
 
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Posted by Arcturus 21st December 2009ce |
Castle Ring (Hillfort) — Images |
 
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Posted by GLADMAN10th December 2009ce |
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