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Submitted by astronomer on Friday, 20 May 2005 Page Views: 12148
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hargate HillCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.618 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Greater Manchester Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Glossop Nearest Village: Charlesworth
Map Ref: SK01239315
Latitude: 53.435130N Longitude: 1.982952W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 | 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 |
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Hargate Hill standing stone (my term...it doesn't seem to have a local name) is at the junction with High Lane and a road up from Hargate Hill, immediately to its north. It stands in a corner of a field mid-way between the High Peak villages of Charlesworth and Simmondley, about 600m W of Cloud farm. It and another stone 100m eastwards was marked on the 1894 OS map. The standing stone is about 1.8m high, 0.6m broad and 0.25m thick.
It stands some 2.5km NNE of Robin Hood's Picking Rods, at Chisworth, and about 2km SSE of the Roman Fort at Melandra. The area is rich in Romano-British archaeology but it is not possible to put this stone into any particular context. According to Glossop historian, Neville Sharpe (via e-mail 20 May 2005), it is one of several standing stones in the area that are rather too big to have been gateposts, that dont have any obvious purpose, but which obviously took some time and effort to erect.
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