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<< Text Pages >> Astley Hall Farm Bronze Age Burial - Round Barrow(s) in England in Lancashire

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 11 September 2022  Page Views: 529

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Astley Hall Farm Bronze Age Burial Alternative Name: Astley Hall Visitors Centre
Country: England County: Lancashire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Chorley  Nearest Village: Astley Village
Map Ref: SD574183
Latitude: 53.659443N  Longitude: 2.646101W
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
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 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
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5 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
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In 1963, local farmer Peter Clitheroe was preparing the ground to erect a Dutch Barn at his farm next to Astley Hall. While using his tractor to remove a tree, his sharp eyes caught the sight of broken pottery amongst the tree roots. This turned out to be a Bronze Age burial urn. The find was noted, but the site was not properly excavated until 1974 when the new housing was being built at Astley Village.

Six cremation burials were discovered, but there may well have been more that were lost to the disturbance of a mechanical digger before the site was excavated. Two of the burials were in urns, and four others had been deposited straight into the ground in shallow pits. Variations in burial procedures like this is not uncommon, for example at nearby Noon Hill there are burials both in urns and without them.

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The site is open access. An inscribed stone marks the site of the monument, which sits in front of Astley Hall Farm garden area, by the railings.

The urns are on display in the Astley Hall Visitors Centre which is free to enter.
Free parking in the Astley Village Car Park.

Reference: The Surviving Past: archaeological finds and excavations in Central Lancashire, John Hallam (1988) Countryside Publications Limited
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Re: Astley Hall Farm Bronze Age Burial by Andy B on Sunday, 11 September 2022
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In 1975 the farmland on which a new village was to be built, close to Astley Hall, Chorley, was compulsory purchased. This farm known as Astley Farm, was a site which we had 'earmarked' for future investigation, when it became available.

Some ten years earlier at this farm, a tree had been uprooted to build a dutch barn on the site. As the roots were turned uppermost, pottery was found amongst them. That pottery was collected by the farmer, and boxed. Following the building of the barn, the pottery was suspected as being of Bronze Age period, some 2000 years B.C.

By 1975, that pottery found by the farmer had been reconstructed to positively identify the period it belonged to. Also with the farm now becoming available, permission to carry out further archaeological evaluation was agreed upon, this was to be done under the directorship Mr J. Hallam who was Archaeological Consultant for the CLD Corporation.

The Astley Farm site excavation was undertaken by the Chorley Society and the West Lancashire Archaeological Society, with assistance from the Lancashire Museums Service Centre in Preston, and Directed by John Hallam. It was undertaken over four phases.

Phase one in early 1975, was carried out following demolition of ancillary buildings at Astley Farm. The first task was to locate the tree stump overturned in the mid 1960's. This was done, and more pottery was found in the roots of the stump, which fitted into the part restored section of pot found previously. Along with this pottery, human cremated bones, a flint knife, and a flake of rock from the Lake District were found. All these had been associated with the original burial, the cremated bones having been originally inside the pot.

The pot itself, or more accurately a 'Collared Urn' was some 18 inches tall, and about 15 inches in diameter. It contained the remains of a female. During Phase one and two of the excavation, we discovered five more burials, all cremations, and all female. We also found another 'Collared Urn' in situ, with its bones still inside.

The site was almost surrounded by a ditch, but the causeway entrance to this special lowland burial site was not found, due to disturbance. Most other Bronze Age burial places are on higher land. Locally we have examples on the local high moorland to the east of Chorley.

Source: http://chorleyhistorysociety.co.uk/sys2013.htm
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