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Multi-periodSite Name: Great Meols
Country: England County: Merseyside Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Hoylake Nearest Village: Meols
Map Ref: SJ231906 Landranger Map Number: 108
Latitude: 53.406591N Longitude: 3.158224W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

1 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

3 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0	No data.

5 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

3

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Ancient Settlement in Merseyside (Wirral)

The Shoreline off Great Meols near Hoylake on the Wirral at SJ231906, once in Cheshire, but now in Merseyside. During the 19th century numerous artefacts from the Mesolithic to the medieval period were unearthed from a submerged forest on the seashore near Dove Point by the local residents of Hoylake. The discovery of several Roman coins (of Iron Age date) from Brittany and Armenia have led to speculation that Meols was an Iron Age trading port, perhaps used to export Cheshire salt to the Mediterranean.
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SJ2390 : The beach approaching Dove Point by Ian Greig — by Ian Greig
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SJ2390 : Fishing boats off Dove Point, Meols by Sue Adair — by Sue Adair
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SJ2390 : Boats moored off Dove Point by Ian Greig — by Ian Greig
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SJ2390 : Boats at low tide, Dove Point, Hoylake by Mike Pennington — by Mike Pennington
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SJ2390 : Yacht at low tide, Dove Point, Hoylake by Mike Pennington — by Mike Pennington
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