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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierSite Name: March Hill Mesolithic Camp
Country: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Marsden
Map Ref: SE0163612804
Latitude: 53.611786N  Longitude: 1.976746W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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March Hill is one of the highest points around, with stunning views back down the valley. The hill was used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers as a flint-knapping spot and hunting camp.
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Forged in Conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory by Andy B on Sunday, 27 June 2021
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A talk by Seren Griffiths from earlier this year. Gold fob seals, Sheffield silver, Mesolithic stone tools - these were some of the discoveries detailed in the 28 papers, books and pamphlets published by a soldier turned archaeologist who began looking at what you might find in the soil in the middle of a World War I battlefield. In her Essay, Seren Griffiths traces the way Francis Buckley used his training for military intelligence to shape the way he set about digging up and recording objects buried both in war-torn landscapes of France and then on the Yorkshire moors around his home.

Listen at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vgvb
or http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09fsczr

and see the related paper by Seren Griffiths & Nicholas J. Saunders
Forged in Conflict: Francis Buckley, the First World War, and British Prehistory
International Journal of Historical Archaeology volume 25, pages 469–485 (2021)

Francis Buckley was extraordinary; an officer responsible for arming grenades, excavating trenches, surveying, sketch-mapping, and military intelligence, his actions were a roll-call of the First World War’s bloodiest battles. The psychological toll was significant. War remade the man and created the archaeologist. Under fire, Buckley recorded prehistoric lithics on the Somme, a rich archaeological landscape, and a deadly battlefield. After the war, “tramping” the Yorkshire moors, Buckley applied military skills to excavate and record a key, but still understudied lithic collection. This paper explores Francis Buckley’s war, its implications for the history of archaeological thought, and reasserts his under-acknowledged legacy.

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Buckley collected tens of thousands of artifacts, mainly near his Pennines home, but also in Northumberland where his wife Bebba’s family lived (Brewis and Buckley 1928). His notebooks indicate that from one site, March Hill on Marsden Moor, over three years (1920–23) he recovered around 6,868 surface-finds, and excavated a further 1,159 lithics

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-020-00572-6
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00572-6
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A walk up Mesolithic March Hill by Andy B on Sunday, 27 June 2021
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Hike up through outlying hamlets at the head of the Colne Valley, to reach March Hill, one of the highest points around, with stunning views back down the Valley. The hill was used by our Mesolithic hunter-gatherer forebears as a flint-knapping spot and hunting camp. Walk in the footsteps of the pack horses and their drivers as you descend the pack horse road on your return to Marsden.

https://marsdenwalkersarewelcome.org/the_walks/mesolithic-march-hill

https://marsdenwalkersarewelcome.org/perch/resources/download_items/mesolithic-march-hillmay2021.pdf
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Re: March Hill Mesolithic Camp by Andy B on Sunday, 27 June 2021
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From walking site
https://halfwayhike.com/mesolithic-marsden/

People have been investigating small chipped stone tools (flints) and ancient fire pits on March Hill for a century or more.

Flint nodules / cobbles (from which small flakes are knapped – to form ‘microliths’) don’t occur naturally in Marsden or the surrounding areas, they would have been carried in (in leather pouches / bags) from the Yorkshire Coast or Lincolnshire. And maybe further afield – I grew up in the chalklands of Buckinghamshire and I know the Chiltern hills are riddled with flint, perhaps some were traded from there too (that’s speculation by me).

There has been a lot of investigations – both amateur and professional / academic – in the March Hill area over the years. And on the nearby plateau ‘Lominot’, on Warcock near Pule Hill and up at Cupwith.

Some of the research goes back to the late 1880s and into the early 1900s with both renowned Saddleworth Poet Ammon Wrigley and George Marsden – another local poet and an inventor. Both coincidentally included in the Marsden Poetry trail. More digging and research continued in the 1920s to 1940s with the investigations of Francis Buckley and later on with the work of Dr Pat Stonehouse.

And then in the late 1990s there was extensive fieldwork undertaken by West Yorkshire Archeological Services. That research was directed and then published by Dr Penny Spikins and can be read in the excellent ‘Prehistoric people of the Pennines‘.

“When the last fires were put out“: ethnographic analogy and the symbolic use of fire in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. (includes information about the fire pits on March Hill).
Penny Spikins.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326719630_When_the_last_fires_were_put_out_ethnographic_analogy_and_the_symbolic_use_of_fire_in_the_Palaeolithic_and_Mesolithic

Prehistoric People of The Pennines. This large-format book is packed full of detail about mesolithic investigations in the March Hill area.
by Penny Spikins.
https://www.wyjs.org.uk/media/1269/palaeolithic-and-mesolithic.pdf

Lithics to Landscapes: Hunter-Gatherer tool use, resource exploitation, and mobility during the Mesolithic of the Central Pennines.
Paul Preston 2011/2012.
https://www.academia.edu/1492979/Preston_P_R_2011_2012_Lithics_to_Landscapes_Hunter_Gatherer_tool_use_resource_exploitation_and_mobility_during_the_Mesolithic_of_the_Central_Pennines_D_Phil_Thesis_Supervisor_Prof_Nick_Barton_University_of_Oxford_Oxford_UK

An overview of recent research on the lithic (flint) scatters in the Central Pennine area.
Paul Preston 2013.
https://www.academia.edu/6743895/New_Perspectives_on_Central_Pennine_Mesolithic_Lithic_Scatters

Reconstructing The Lifestyles Of Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers On Marsden Moor - Penny Spikins
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/134006/1/Pennine_Mesolithic.pdf
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