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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Withgill Cross (Great Mitton)Country: England County: Lancashire Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Clitheroe Nearest Village: Great Mitton / Withgill
Map Ref: SD70604062
Latitude: 53.860961N Longitude: 2.448499W
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 Lancashire
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this site - see their entry for Withgill Cross, Great Mitton, Lancashire, which gives directions for finding this cross base, together with photographs, a brief description and local folklore.
TNA tells us: "Described by Mr Ackerley (1947) as being found 'in the coppice beside the gate to Withgill is the base of another road-side cross,' all but overgrown by ivy and lost to the causal eye. Thankfully our man Danny got on his bike and found the remains of the little fella, all-but invisible beneath the vegetative growth! Beneath the vegetation, John Dixon told there to be “some interesting 17th century graffiti,” but there’s not much that remains of the old cross."
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