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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Golgotha Lodge (Williamson Park) Alternative Name: Williamson Park (Lancaster); Lancaster MoorCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 6.933 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Lancaster
Map Ref: SD48666121
Latitude: 54.044290N Longitude: 2.785533W
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 |
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Bronze Age barrows (now destroyed) in Lancashire
The Journal of Antiquities features a page for this site, where 'in olden times', one or more Bronze Age burial mounds or barrows used to exist. Today, they have been destroyed with the Park later built over them in 1881. For more information see The Journal's entry for Golgotha Lodge, Williamson Park, Lancaster, Lancashire, which tells us: "The barrow(s) (tumuli) were excavated back in 1865 at which time six or more funery urns were found along with some other, smaller finds (grave goods). Mr. J. Harker (1865, 1872 & 1877) has left us with some good information on the site which was near Golgotha Lodge, Lancaster; the destroyed barrow(s) also sometimes going under the name of ‘Lancaster Moor’. The site had lay close to what is today Wyresdale Road (on a ridge of land ) at the edge of the now Williamson Park; and to the northeast of what were Bowerham Barracks (now St Martin’s College and part of the University of Cumbria). In the vicinity of the barracks there was, apparently, another prehistoric mound or barrow but, once again this suffered destruction, and not much is known about it and its location is now difficult to pin down."
The Journal also includes drawings of some of the artefacts found near Golgotha Lodge, together with reference material and a list of related websites which should provide further information.
There is no scheduling information on Historic England, and the nearest site referred to on Pastscape is Pastscape Monument No. 41198, which tells us this was the site of gallows, their location shown on the 1786 Yates map of Lancashire. No trace of the gallows remains; the site is in Williamson Park, "an area much disturbed by quarrying".
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