Winckley Lowes

Nearest town:
Great Harwood (5km SE)
OS reference:
SD707375
OS sheet:
103
Latitude:
53° 49' 57.45 N
Longitude:
2° 26' 42.9 W
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Image of Winckley Lowes (Round Barrow(s)) by IronMan

Just opposite the larger barrow, the rivers Hodder and Calder join to become the Ribble.

IronMan
IronMan Mar 25, 2002

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Winckley Lowes

treehugger-uk
treehugger-uk Apr 17, 2006

This barrow survives not as well as its neighbour showing heavy signs of excavation and lies opposite a farmhouse please ask permission before entering the field.

Winckley Lowes

IronMan
IronMan Mar 25, 2002

There are two barrows – one low and spread out and another more impressive hillock in the adjacent field. The barrows lie very close to a confluence of rivers – the Ribble, the Calder and the Hodder. This is surely the reason for these mounds location. The Ribble is associated with the river goddess Belisma and Calderstones, the name of an ex-mental hospital about a mile away, suggests that there was may have been more sites in this area.

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Winckley Lowes
Round Barrow(s)
IronMan
IronMan Mar 25, 2002

Rev. J R Luck of Stonyhurst College excavated the lower mound in 1894 revealing a cinerary urn dated to around 1250BCE containing the cremated remains of a body. Also found were a young man’s skull and a flint knife, a boy’s skull and a child’s skull.

During WWII J.R.R. Tolkien stayed at Stonyhurst College, which lies within easy walking distance. His son was a boarder there and Tolkien, to escape the blitz, spent many months there in order to concentrate on his writings. It is said that some of his inspiration for the Shire comes from the Ribble Valley.

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