Giant’s Chair

Nearest town:
Ludlow (9km WSW)
OS reference:
SO593779
OS sheets:
137, 138
Latitude:
52° 23' 49.76 N
Longitude:
2° 35' 53.61 W
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Image of Giant’s Chair (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The northwest cairn. Brown Clee, Shropshire’s highest hill is far left. The Giant’s Chair outcrop is right of centre.

Image credit: A. Brookes (29.9.2018)
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thesweetcheat Dec 27, 2018
Image of Giant’s Chair (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Immediately south of the cairns the side of the hill has been quarried away. The southeast cairn is visible top right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (29.9.2018)
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thesweetcheat Dec 27, 2018
Image of Giant’s Chair (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The trig-surmounted mound of the NW cairn. Mid-Wales is laid out into the distance.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.8.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 23, 2010
Image of Giant’s Chair (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The NW cairn. The stones on the left of the mound are an inevitable walkers’ shelter, no doubt made from stones robbed either from the cairn or the hillfort rampart.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.8.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 23, 2010
Image of Giant’s Chair (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The SE cairn, looking SE. The ridge of The Malverns can be seen immediately behind the cairn on the skyline.

Image credit: A. Brookes (11.8.2010)
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thesweetcheat Sep 23, 2010

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Giant’s Chair
Cairn(s)
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thesweetcheat Feb 18, 2009

From “Shropshire – An Archaeological Guide” -Michael Watson (2002 Shropshire Books):

“The hilltop had been a place of meaning to local Bronze Age communities long before the heights were fortified. Two ring cairns on the W hill summit are evdence for this. The first, disturbed and only partially surviving is surmounted by a modern OS trig. pillar. What remains of a central low mound is surrounded by the E arc of a stony ring bank, originally perhaps up to 28m in diameter. 80m to the SE, the other cairn is a low circular flat topped mound of earth, 23m across, with remains of a stone kerb around its edge. The excavation trench of 1932 is still visible and this located a 2.3m deep circular pit beneath the centre of the mound, but no direct evidence for the monument’s date. The SW quadrant is truncated.”

The Giant’s Chair itself is a natural rock feature.

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