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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Cow Cross (Finsbury)Country: England County: Greater London Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: London Nearest Village: Finsbury
Map Ref: TQ31788181
Latitude: 51.519844N Longitude: 0.102047W
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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Ancient Cross in Greater London
The Cow Cross used to be near the long lost Fag Well, and is marked on the 1896 OS maps on the junction of Charterhouse Street and Cow Cross Street. The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this site - see their entry for Cow Cross, Finsbury, London, Middlesex. The TNA entry includes an image of the 1896 map and a brief archaeology and history of the site, which apparently took its name from the cattle market that took place here from the 12th century onwards.
There is also a brief entry on Pastscape Monument No. 404917 which records this as a "Medieval or later cross shown on Ordnance Survey maps of 1914."
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