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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hagg Woods (Thornbridge)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.239 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Holmfirth Nearest Village: Thongsbridge
Map Ref: SE1493410443
Latitude: 53.590358N Longitude: 1.775861W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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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 |
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Cairnfield in Yorkshire (West)
This cairnfield is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 49197, an extract from which reads: "A cairnfield in Hagg Wood, Honley. It is situated at the end of a plateau. There are nine cairns, between 3 metres and 8 metres in diameter, and up to 0.6 metres high. Towrads the southern end of the cairnfield are two parallel rubble banks which run approximately south east-north west, from the scarp at the edge of the plateau to the west edge of the wood. The rubble banks are about 3 metres wide and up to 0.3 metres high. The cairnfield also includes two circular features which may be hut circles. The southern of these is a slight hollow with a level base about 12 metres in diameter. The northern one is largely obscured by holly trees, but is visible as a rubble bank where it is crossed by a path at the northern end of the cairnfield. Two of the cairns were excavated with finds consisting of two barbed and tanged arrowheads, flint fragments, waterworn stones, and charcoal."
This cairnfield is also scheduled - see Historic England List ID 1018555, which repeats the Pastscape information, adding that the site is "in Hagg Wood, Honley, 375m south east of Upper Hagg."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also feature a page for this site - see their entry for Hagg Woods, Thongsbridge, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, which gives directions for finding this site together with a brief archaeology & history. TNA say that these are "pretty difficult to locate even when the vegetation isn't covering them", but advise to be diligent! These were "last excavated in the early 1960s by Neil Lunn and other members of the Huddersfield & District Archaeology Society. Little by way of datable material was found, although one of them did “reveal features typical of some Bronze Age barrows.” Beneath this one they found “the remains of a hut or shelter with a succession of small hearths and a group of stone-packed postholes."
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