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Bronze age life by airport runway From BBC News: Archaeologists have published findings of an important Bronze Age settlement at Manchester Airport... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by baza 25th April 2007ce Edited 25th April 2007ce

Lindow Man to visit Manchester Museum The Iron Age man (usually found at the British Museum) should be around "between April next year and March 2009 and the museum wants to hear the views of local people on how the remains should be displayed... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 29th January 2007ce Edited 29th January 2007ce

Ancient henge discovered near city By David Holmes, Chester Chronicle Wiltshire may have Stonehenge but now Cheshire has a wooden henge after archaeologists made the discovery near Chester... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by stubob 4th January 2005ce Edited 28th July 2006ce

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E-mapping Victorian Cheshire Map fans searching for monuments are sure to like this recently completed site - it's been produced so you can look at tithe maps particularly, but you can also look at 1870ish / 1910ish maps side by side with the modern OS map. You can zoom in and pan about to your heart's content. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 7th May 2008ce

Poynton Little Folk - Olde Cheshire Dialect This page could be useful for figuring out local placenames. Another part of Helena Kennedy's website promotes local studies in schools (including using real historical Cheshire placenames to devise new folklore) - and to keep the old dialect alive. She also has links to her paintings of various prehistoric sites. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 25th October 2007ce Edited 25th October 2007ce

Ginclough (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images (click to view fullsize)

Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce

Ginclough (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes

[visited 29/1/12] This is to all intents and purposes a boulder by the side of a busy road with some views. If the road and the wall weren't here, it would still be a boulder, but at least you'd get some lovely views and nice surroundings. Is it Prehistoric though? Its certainly a different shape and feel to the Murder Stone and Whaley Bridge stone less than 5 miles away. With a different positioning in the landscape too. However, could quite easily be a waymarker for the track the main road turned into. Access is for the stupid. There is no public parking in Ginclough, so you either have a longish walk (rubbish reward ratio), perch on the side of a busy fast road or do what I did and reverse into the track next to the stone from the main road. The benefit of which means no stiles and a 10 second walk. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by juamei 7th February 2012ce

Higher Ridgegate (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes

Southeast of Macclesfield is a small village called Langley, head east through the village until you get to a pub called the Leathers Smithy, opposite the Ridgegate reservoir, turn left immediately after the pub and continue up hill until you get to a small 3 space carpark. Now back track down the lane and the stone is in the field to your right.. The stone is about four and a half foot tall, not tall, but a pretty standard height in Cheshire. It is seemingly unworked in any way, there are no holes for gates and such. The stone is about a mile south south east of Toothills barrow and stands on the edge of a small ridge and seems to ring true to me, in placing at least. Due to thick cold fog the views were unseen today but on a clearer day would be "quite good". Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by postman 6th February 2012ce

Higher Ridgegate (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

Posted by postman 6th February 2012ce

Sutton Hall (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes

Just south of Macclesfield, near the outskirt village of Sutton lane Ends is this cairn, you'll probably need a map to find it, even though it's visible from the road, and on Google street view. I parked on the side of the icey road and set off across the field, for the first time today I was'nt trespassing but following a designated public path. Blyeck, but that didn't last long as I was forced into the field next door to get to the cairn. This is one big cairn, I would have been here ages ago had I known of it, not having enough money to get to Wales has it's advantages. Around 1877 it was dug into, a trench twelve feet long, six feet wide and eight feet deep revealing nothing but boulders, some split by fire. Again it was mutilated in the name of science by James Forde-Johnston of Manchester University in 1962 finding no primary burial but several secondary cremations. The big black water trough on top is quite unnecessary, and an awful blot on what is a mighty work of old, Sutton Hall farm....Ggggrrrrrrrr. As I approached the cairn the sheep legged it, all except one, Tripod was his name (mine) and he guarded the cairn well, but then even he yielded to me. Then as I got closer and the cairns size became apparent it looked like it could be big enough to have a chamber in it somewhere, but alas it is not so. The snow and the fog makes it look cold but i'm all togged up and impervious to such things, in time the fog lifts slightly enough to see the outline of hills, outliers of the Peak. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by postman 6th February 2012ce