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This Bronze Age field system/settlement is worth a look if you're in the area.
Covering around 900 square metres there is plenty to see in the form of field boundaries, cairns and an enclosure containing some kinda 3/4 stone alignment.
March 2004 when I visited the remains were pretty clear of heather and moorland grass; wouldn't know if that's the case now.
Follow the track to the SE from the Bar Dyke, SK246946, for about a quarter of a mile until you are directly above the Agden Side Road.
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Prior to an excavation by W Bateman in 1824 stone robbers uncovered a cist holding 2 skeletons and an urn. Bateman's dig unearthed another cist containing cremations, inhumations, urn fragments and dogs teeth. Later Romano coins were also found indicating its later use.
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Thomas Bateman may have excavated this barrow in 1860, although it's not confirmed, and found a contracted skeleton laying on a bed of burnt wood along with a flint arrowhead and a bronze awl.
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Watched this ring cairn/robbed cairn slowly become overgrown over the last 10years.
If it's a ring cairn it's a good one. And if it's a robbed out cairn then it was a big cairn.
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Fin Cop 2010 excavation report.
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There's plenty to see on Masson Hill. Crowning almost the very top is this barrow. Although there's plenty more to see; the barrow is surrounded by caves, victorian show caverns (if you know the still open secreted entrances to them), mine shafts, mine levels, q-pits, gardens, cable cars and meres.....a smorgasboard of interest no less.
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The second stone mentioned in previous misc. post has now been donated to Leek Museum and is on display.
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Been 8years since I last was at Offerton West. So overgrown was it back then that I wasn't in a hurry to return.....gave it another shot today and the circle/ring cairn is quite prominent now, although the damaged western side is covered in dying bracken.
Worth a look. Photos dont really do it justice.
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