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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Pendle Hill Ringwork and BarrowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Hillfort
Map Ref: SD806428
Latitude: 53.881026N Longitude: 2.296595W
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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A circular raised stone bank some 7ft in width broken only by an entry facing directly to the east towards the Heights of Wheathead and the Pike of Alainsete.
The site is located on a raised section of rough moorland named Stoney Bank directly to the north of the Big End of Pendle Hill. The site affords fine views over the upper Ribble Valley with the mountains of the western Yorkshire Dales as a backdrop.
The raised-banked ringwork has an external diameter of 72ft, and an internal diameter of 58ft. Prodding of the internal floor area with a metal spiked tool in random locations suggests a paved surface at some depth below the turf. Prodding in the centre of the circle suggested a deeper large stone lined pit. Given that the morning turned wet further investigation is needed. A look on Google Earth and Aerial photographs may prove rewarding.
From a height below the Pendle escarpment at the high limit of the enclosures we noticed a raised mound in an enclosure adjacent (west) to the one the horse-shoe ringwork is sited.
At SD 805 429 we located a well defined 60ft. diameter ditched bowl barrow or or possibly a henge.
Just below this site is an ancient well, now piped, that feeds the 17th cenury farm of Heklin, the farmstead is sited on the highest level of settlement on this side of Pendle Hill in the parish of Downham.
Deposits of ironstone and coal bearing shales were also noted on the Stoney Bank shelf.
Both sites are now recorded on the Lancashire Sites & Monuments Record at Preston.
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