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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Astley Hall Farm Bronze Age Burial Alternative Name: Astley Hall Visitors CentreCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Chorley Nearest Village: Astley Village
Map Ref: SD574183
Latitude: 53.659443N Longitude: 2.646101W
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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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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