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<< Text Pages >> Glead Hill Cob - Round Barrow(s) in England in Cheshire

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Glead Hill Cob Alternative Name: Houndslow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.65 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cheshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Helsby  Nearest Village: Manley
Map Ref: SJ538726  Landranger Map Number: 117
Latitude: 53.248394N  Longitude: 2.693842W
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.
no data 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
0No data.
1 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
0no data
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Round Barrow in Cheshire

Glead Hill Cob, also known as ‘Houndslow’, lies four miles to the north-east of the Seven Lows. In 1879 a Mr John Harrison of the New Pale was levelling this large tumulus for the foundations of a house when ‘ten or twelve large urns (filled with burnt bones) were met with’. Unfortunately the urns fell to pieces upon removal, but a small incense cup did survive. A few of the relics within the urns were ‘rescued by Mr Harrison from the workmen’ including the incense cup, barbed flint arrowheads ‘of good type’, a flint scraper, a fragment of a flint knife and a bronze pin. These were all photographed by William Shone in the early 20th century.

The incense cup is described as being ‘2¾ inches across its base, 3¼ inches high, 5¼ inches across the mouth and 15 7/8 inches in circumference at the widest part’.



References

Cheshire County Sites and Monuments Record

D.M.Longley “Prehistory” in C.R.Elrington (ed) “The Victoria History of the County of Chester, volume 1, Oxford University Press (1987)

W. Shone “Prehistoric Man in Cheshire” (1911)
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