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Just found this link to a diary of one of the founders of Chorley Archeology Society.
In it he mentions finds from Anglezarke and the surrounding districts.
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Great day out, picked us up from central Dublin.
Also guarantees access inside !!!
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Note :- The exact location of this site cannot be guaranteed as it does not appear on any O.S. maps.
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This strange linier feature is situated on the moor to the North of Great Hill.
The first edition O.S. map shows a feature called "Fish Pond" in the same location, but after today's visit I'm not so sure!
The feature seems to consist of a banked earthwork that has been cut through by a stream producing a clear section as shown on the first photograph. From the stream bed to the top of the bank I would guess to be 20 to 30 ft. The section clearly shows a solid core to the bank a gravel infill at the sides that is topped off by peat.
The age of the site is difficult to estimate, but while walking around the top of the bank "bog oak" and other timbers could be seen emerging from the eroding peat.
One word of warning.
The surrounding area is extremely wet and boggy and care should taken approaching the site. One wrong step meant that I sank up to my waist in smelly brown stuff !
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Note :- The exact location of this site cannot be guaranteed as it does not appear on any O.S. maps.
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Walking up to the summit of Great Hill, I came across this this 'dimpled' stone on a stone platform which maybe rock art.
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Heading East from Black Coppice Cairn towards Round Loaf, the upright stone appeared on the horizon. The plateau on which it stands to the North of Hurst Hill had been badly burned last summer and most of the vegetation had been removed exposing the peat layer which was now eroding.
The site consists on 1 upright stone (a rare feature on Anglezarke) and the possibility of others emerging through the peat.
Views of the surrounding landscape are superb from here, with Great Hill to the North East, Round Loaf to the East, Winter Hill to the South and the Lancashire plain to the West.
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The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society No 61, 1996 pp 135 & 145
Page 135
"Is a substantial linear feature of no obvious function."
"May have been a land boundary of the kind associated elsewhere with the Neolithic / Bronze Age exploitation of upland areas."
Page 145
"A long straight flat-bottomed earthwork which does not conform to any lines of natural drainage or local topography. There is only limited evidence for banks on either side of the ditch"
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I've just come across the following documentation. I think it may be the latest published survey and excavation report covering the Anglezarke area.
The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society No 61, 1996
pp 133 – 166
"Seeing the Sites : Survey and Excavation on the Anglezarke Uplands, Lancashire"
By Christine Howard Davis
With contributions by
M. Bain, H. Bamford, B. Barnes, R. H. Leech & J. Quartermaine
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A brief history of Anglezarke including a defination of the place name.
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A new web site, looking at archaeological site around Chorley.
The chairman has had an interest in the prehistoric sites on Anglezarke moor for most of his life.
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Note :- The exact location of this site cannot be guaranteed as it does not appear on any O.S. maps.
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This site looks very similar to Black Coppice Chambered Cairn but still buried with a similar sized cap stone fully visible but only a small gap visible of the possible chamber.
Unfortunately the photograph I took came out corrupted. This may have been the cold getting to it internals or something else !!
I suggest this site is seen at its best during the winter months as summer vegetation will obscure it.
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Note :- The exact location of this site cannot be guaranteed as it does not appear on any O.S. maps.
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I stumbled across this whilst looking for Black Coppice cairn.
This feature consists of an arc of stones which may form a complete circle (the remainder is still concealed under the peat), and an upright stone sitting among a collection of stones that may have formed a cairn.
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Note :- The exact location of this site cannot be guaranteed as it does not appear on any O.S. maps.
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This stone just outcropping from the surrounding peat and vegetation shows a curious curvi-linier marking similar to the playing card shapes associated with Roman forts ?
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