Moortop Barrows

Nearest town:
Horwich (5km WSW)
OS reference:
SD682134
OS sheet:
109
Latitude:
53° 36' 57.07 N
Longitude:
2° 28' 50.74 W
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Image of Moortop Barrows (Round Barrow(s)) by Stoneshifter

The depression at the top of this tumulus probably corresponds to a chamber at the base which has collapsed.

Image credit: www.davidaspinall.co.uk
Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Apr 12, 2008
Image of Moortop Barrows (Round Barrow(s)) by LivingRocks

An eroded section of Moor Top (Miners) Barrow I took a couple of years ago, looks like a slag heap to me.

Image credit: John Miller
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LivingRocks Mar 9, 2007
Image of Moortop Barrows (Round Barrow(s)) by treehugger-uk

curious carving on a stone inside the ‘cairn’ looks like an ‘M’ or a greek sigma

Image credit: treehugger-uk
treehugger-uk
treehugger-uk Mar 8, 2007

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Moortop Barrows

Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Apr 12, 2008

There is coal beneath this round barrow. It’s shown on the 1932 Geological Survey as the ‘Margery Band’ and it’s just a shallow seam. Trouble is that it’s thirty metres below ground level and that’s way beyond the depth of any bell pit. Other means of mining it would have left surface traces – which aren’t there – such as a road, a shed, a mineshaft etc. The stone that’s pictured on the barrow, with a carved ‘M’, is probably an ancient boundary stone – it was common to use tumuli as boundary markers – and the ‘M’ probably represents Margaret – Bolton’s patron saint.

Moortop Barrows

treehugger-uk
treehugger-uk Mar 8, 2007

I’m not so sure about the authenticity of this cairn there are three similliar mounds on the waterfalls walk at Anglezarke marked clearly as bellpits but theyre dug a little bit deeper and bigger than this one.

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Jul 2007

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