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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Adlington Hall pre-Norman crossCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.609 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cheshire Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Bollington Nearest Village: Adlington
Map Ref: SJ901797
Latitude: 53.314140N Longitude: 2.150056W
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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 |
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Ancient Cross in Cheshire
Adlington Hall's pre-Norman cross is located in a small grove of trees on a low prominence overlooking the park about 1km south of the hall. It is on private land but is best approached along a footpath from Bonis Hall Lane, Prestbury.
This is one of about two dozen so-called 'Mercian' crosses that are found running southwards down the 'Lyme', an ancient frontier joining the headwaters of the rivers Mersey and Trent before swinging eastwards, roughly following the Trent, towards Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. Two exceptions are Eliseg's Pillar at Llangollen, and a similar shaft at Beckermet, Cumbria.
These stone shafts are all of similar design, a tapered cylindrical shaft surmounted by a single or double collar that separates a square section tapered upper part. Ornamentation is variable and can be elaborate but the tapered section is usually characterized by sculpted 'swags' defining the corners of the square portion. It is thought that they may once have had small 'top-knot' crosses perched on top but none survive intact.
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