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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: OverchurchCountry: England County: Merseyside Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Village: Upton
Map Ref: SJ264888
Latitude: 53.390886N Longitude: 3.108174W
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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Hogeybare visited on 21st Jun 2021 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Hogeybare visited on 21st Jun 2021 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Almost entirely gone, really difficult to find the stones hidden in the woods.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 1 Ambience: 3 Access: 4
A new parish church was erected in Upton village. During the demolition of the old church, the famous Overchurch Rune Stone was discovered. The stone dates from Anglo Saxon times, see our linked page for more details.
This find suggested that the early 1815 church was built on the site of a much earlier place
of worship which was confirmed by D O’Hanlon and K Pealin in their survey of the site of Overchurch, Upton, Wirral. They refer to the circular form of the enclosure around the old graveyard at Overchurch as having possible links with a time prior to the early Christian period. They further refer to the ‘enclosure’ also having a ‘depression’ which could possibly have been an internal ditch, a feature that would correspond to the usual structure of a henge.
This very thorough 1986 survey refers briefly to the plotting and recording of ridge and furrow, standing stones and pits and ponds by triangulation and makes brief reference to the 1898 OS map which shows a path leading to the churchyard from Upton Village.
What the report does not mention is that there were a number of other ‘stones’ indicated on that OS map that described a circle with a diameter of no longer standing upright.
Read more, with photos and map extracts in the article by Malcolm C McIvor, ‘Wirral's stone circlees - or were they?’, from Sheetlines 95 (2012). (PDF file)
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