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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Hilbre Island (Wirral Peninsula) Alternative Name: Hilbre Cross
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.085 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Merseyside Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Hoylake / West Kirby
Map Ref: SJ185879
Latitude: 53.381636N Longitude: 3.226703W
Condition:

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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

no data Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
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no data Access:

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
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no data Accuracy:

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 fragments found in Merseyside

The Journal of Antiquities features a page for this site, one of three islands off the north-western tip of the Wirral Peninsula in the Dee Estuary - see their entry for Hilbre Island, Dee Estuary, Wirral Peninsula, which gives background information about St Hildeburgh who may have founded a monastic church on this island in the 7th century AD. The Journal adds that "At the dissolution of the monasteries two monks were allowed to remain on the island, the last monk leaving in 1550. Apparently the monks kept a beacon lit during the nightime to aide sea-going vessels in the Dee estuary from colliding with dangerous rocks".

As well as the Hilbre Cross found on this island in the 19th century and dated to around 1000AD, the Journal tells us that artefacts from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman periods have also been found here.

Pastscape has two entries for this island, the first being Pastscape Monument 1535353, which tells us that three fragments of an 11th century cross head were found in an alleged cemetery on the island; two of these fragments are now lost, the other is was in the Charles Dawson Brown Museum, West Kirby - see the West Kirby Museum website and our own site page for St Bridget (Early Christian Sculptured Stone/hogback) in West Kirby. The second Pastscape entry is Monument No. 1525350, which says the lower part of a circle-head with unpierced spandrels with a small fragment of the top of the shaft was discovered in 1852/53 and is now in the Grosvenor Museum in Chester.

Please note these islands are cut off by the tides. Please refer to the Wirral Peninsula website for details and tide times.

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

SJ1887 : Hilbre Island View by Galatas — by Galatas
©2011(licence)

SJ1887 : Freshwater Pool by Galatas — by Galatas
©2011(licence)

SJ1887 : Hilbre Cliffs by Galatas — by Galatas
©2011(licence)

SJ1887 : Cliffs on Hilbre Island by Galatas — by Galatas
©2011(licence)

SJ1887 : Wooden buildings on Hilbre Island by El Pollock — by El Pollock
©2012(licence)

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