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IronMan I
IronMan Jun 25, 2003 18:13:07
Replying to Rivington Pike

Hello Rivington Pike, welcome aboard! This is the first time I've spoken to a hill... I think...

That stone definitely looks interesting - I reckon there's a lot of prehistoric stuff just waiting to be discovered all around Winter Hill, especially around Anglezark, under all that peat. As I've said before in my fieldnotes on TMA, everything seems to point towards Winter Hill and/or Rivington Pike. Pikestones in particular - even the name points to it! Have you seen this:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=3467

I've tried visiting a couple of times now, but to no avail - one time I was turned away and the other the place was locked up. It was found in Anglezark reservoir - and begs the question, what else lies beneath the reservoir's surface?

R Rivington Pike
Rivington Pike Jun 25, 2003 19:02:46
Replying to IronMan

Hi Ironman,

I've been watching your work with interest, it seem we have the same taste in sites, "spooky" :^))

I was planning to put the illustration for th e'pikestones on myself, but you beat me to it.

Any idea when the pikestones got their name ?

Talking about other features, have you been to the 'witches covern' on Chorley Nab ?
This is quarried out hollow with carving of faces, cross, letters and an urn. I have photographs, but I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing to go on this super site?

Also at the Heapey end of the Nab, there is a wood called Temple Wood that had a Barrow in it ?

Cheers

(The Talking Hill!)

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