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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pendle Hill - Round Barrow(s) in England in Lancashire

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 04 August 2009  Page Views: 12001

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pendle Hill Alternative Name: Pendle Forest History Society
Country: England County: Lancashire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Clitheroe
Map Ref: SD789414
Latitude: 53.868377N  Longitude: 2.322358W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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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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Pendle Hill submitted by Sunny100 : An atmospheric view of Pendle Hill (north side) taken from the old milestone on the Downham road. Photo taken on 04/10/10. This side of the hill is referred to locally as 'the big end'. OS grid SD.807427. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow(s) in Lancashire. The history of Pendle Hill is to be pieced together for the first time with the help of archaeologists. By tracing clues left on the landscape, Pendle Forest History Group hopes to prove there is more to the hill than the story of the Pendle witches.

They are teaming up with staff from Lancaster-based Oxford Archaeology North, who will provide training in research and field-surveying techniques.

But the archaeologists are leaving their excavating tools at home as the team aim to uncover secrets without digging a single hole.

They are using old records, maps and aerial photographs to identify historic sites around the villages of Barley, Newchurch and Roughlee and are calling for help from people who have ever found anything unusual in the area.

Members will pinpoint sites and use the latest technology to make a detailed record of finds.

Work has already started on the legendary hill, where it is believed people have lived since the Stone Age, as part of The Landscape Stories project.

Only a limited amount of physical investigation has been carried out in the and the information collected by the group will be a valuable addition to Lancashire’s Historic Environment Record, the definitive record of all the historic monuments.

Joan Parsons, chairman of Pendle Forest History Group, said the area was “littered” with possible finds.

She added: “It’s very exciting. In some of the old leaflets and booklets there are things that people have seen.

“From our house in Spen Brook you can see where a very big stone circle has been moved which has previously been recorded on the old maps.

“We’re hoping to look at things like burial grounds.

“Flint arrowheads, stone axeheads, bronze barbs for spears have been found and recorded in little brochures but not further afield and it has just got lost. English Heritage do maps of interest but it is a bit bare around here.”

The work is part of a wider project being co-ordinated by Pendle Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty team.

Source: Lancashire Telegraph

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Pendle Hill submitted by Sunny100 : A lovely Autumn view of Pendle Hill, Lancashire, at SD.804414. It is 1,827 feet high and on the summit there is an Iron-Age cairn called 'The Devil's Apronful', also Jeppe Knape's Grave, a Bronze-Age tumulus and, lower down the hill Jinny Well. The hill is also famous because of the Pendle witches. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill submitted by Sunny100 : Pendle Hill with the Large letters "1612". Photo taken 20/08/12. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Pendle Hill summit round barrow by aussteiger on Sunday, 20 May 2012
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This is the only real confirmation that I have ever seen that records the existance of a round barrow/burial mound on the summit of Pendle Hill.
J Dixon.
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Re: Pendle Hill by aussteiger on Sunday, 20 May 2012
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Sent to me by Danny in Yorkshire (john Dixon)

Report, Account of the Observations and Calculations of the Principal Triangulation, by Captain Alexander R Clarke, published by the Ordnance Survey, London, 1858.

PENDLE HILL, 1841. There is a round conical barrow about 10 feet diameter upon the hill. The centre of the barrow is the station, and is marked by a stone measuring 30 inches by 18, with a hole jumped in it.

Altitude above mean sea level:- 1816.4 feet

Position, latitude and longitude, degrees minutes decimal seconds 53 52 6.43 / 2 17 48.68

place name:- Pendle Hill

coordinates:- 53d 52m 6.43s N, 2d 17m 48.68s W

Altitude 1816.4 feet

date:- 1858
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Re: Links for Pendle Forest History Group by Sunny100 on Monday, 11 July 2011
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Up by the little boundary stone at the top of the hill behind The Witches Galore shop. I didn't know there was a well down below the church. Must search these out.
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Re: Links for Pendle Forest History Group by Anonymous on Monday, 11 July 2011
You don't mention the other wells in Newchurch which is located by the footpath which goes up past the toilets.
Also there was another well on the land by the bottom of the Vicarage garden.
Jinny well used to always be full of 'Jimmy green slime' with lovely clear cold water, which we used to get water from for our frog spawn. Happy days

From an ex Kirker . Lynn
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Links for Pendle Forest History Group by Andy B on Tuesday, 04 August 2009
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http://www.spenbrook.co.uk/PFHS.htm

http://heritage-key.com/category/tags/pendle-forest-history-group
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