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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clulow Cross Alternative Name: Cleulow Cross, Cluelow CrossCountry: England County: Cheshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Macclesfield Nearest Village: Wincle
Map Ref: SJ952674 Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.203650N Longitude: 2.073317W
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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gritstone visited on 1st Jun 2020 - their rating: Amb: 4 No public access, so it's almost impossible to see this from the road - you have to look really hard into the copse of trees (perhaps take binoculars next time).
BrownEdger saw from a distance on 21st Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 3
The broken millstone grit pillar of Clulow Cross stands about 10 feet high on a large conical mound which some, including Sainter, believed to be an enormous tumulus: ‘This wayside cross, once so common, is placed upon the summit of an artificial mound of earth…This mound, or tumulus, is 250 feet in diameter, 25 feet high’.
Access
Clulow Cross (or Cleulow) stands in a small plantation at the junction of the A54 Congleton to Buxton Road and the minor crossroads leading to Sutton (GR: SJ953672). There is no formal access but it can easily be seen from the road.
References
J.D. Sainter “The Jottings of some Geological, Archaeological, Botanical, Ornithological and Zoological Rambles Round Macclesfield” (1878)
Note: Please note this site is located on private land but can be easily viewed from the nearby road.
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