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Date UncertainSite Name: Finsbury Park earthworksCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 4.162 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Greater London Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: London Nearest Village: Finsbury Park
Map Ref: TQ3186087537
Latitude: 51.571291N Longitude: 0.09875W
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 |
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We visited these earthworks earlier today with a few local members, Terry the original poster showed us where they are. I have added more photos and updated the location to make it more accurate. Various of us who visited are going to see what we can find in the archives about this area.
Terry (Therisa) Jones first wrote in 2014: Liam pointed us to one of his favourite spots in the park: a low rectangular earthwork. As we approached I immediately noticed a strip lynchet and on closer inspection saw others of similar dimension parallel to it. The lynchets seemed to extend down the hill, but there was no sign of them going up in the other direction. The impression was that the earthwork formed a boundary. This was confirmed by another wooden post belonging to Haringey Council that appeared to mark the limit of its authority.
Liam related that he is often drawn to sit on the boundary edge to meditate (without hitherto having known it was such).
The presence of the lynchets was highly suggestive that the earthwork predated the medieval period when the lynchets would have been laid; also, that although the local terrain had been wooded until the 17th century, the small area of the earthwork had not been wooded as early as the mediaeval period, to the extent that small-scale agriculture was possible.
"Even after all this we still weren’t quite prepared for the next and perhaps most crucial discovery: a few paces further on to the east, in the middle of yet another rectangular earthworked area, we found a small mound that looked uncannily like a Bronze Age cist. There was no obvious indicators of what it might otherwise be. It was also aligned east-west. We were immediately presented with the notion that the top of the hill at its eastern end was a burial ground of perhaps very great antiquity and still certainly in use today. Further exploration in woods nearby revealed some more small mounds suggestive of more burials.”
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