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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Whitelow
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.008 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Greater Manchester Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Bury  Nearest Village: Shuttleworth
Map Ref: SD80501626  Landranger Map Number: 109
Latitude: 53.642484N  Longitude: 2.29643W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
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
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Whitelow
Whitelow submitted by vagabondnma : Taken from the top of the cairn looking towards Fletcher Bank Quarry which destroyed two others. At the edge of the cairn/mound you can just see the small stones of the outer oval bank. In the foreground is one of the upright standing stones. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Greater Manchester

This cairn is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 45141, which tells us the remains of this cairn measure 14m in diameter, circa 0.6m high, with a substantially buitl retaining wall. It was discovered in 1960 and excavated in 1960 and 1962. A primary burial and seven secondary cremations, four in urns were found. All dated from the early to middle Bronze Age. Most of the finds are now in Bury Museum.

The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for Whitelow Cairn near Shuttleworth, Greater Manchester, which includes photographs, directions for finding this site, a description, and a list of reference sources for more information.
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Whitelow submitted by vagabondnma : This is in a field on your right as you head along Bury Old Road north to Whitelow Cairn. It is opposite the entrance to Bent House Farm. It was once used as a gatepost, but it looks to me like its origins may be far older. This was once an ancient trackway with at least three burial mounds along it. It's about six foot in length. Any comments? (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Whitelow submitted by vagabondnma : Whitelow Cairn looking South. The outer stone bank is clearly evident and you can see what is and what is not natural. It would of course have been more prominent in its day. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Whitelow submitted by vagabondnma : Whitelow cairn viewed from above on the road beside the quarry. You can see the oval shape of its outer stone bank. From this view you can see Winter Hill on the horizon, and several other prehistoric burial sites. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Whitelow by vagabondnma on Monday, 28 March 2005
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Condition:3 :damaged a lot but still impressive
Ambience:4 :If you ignore the quarry
Access:4 :it is not actually a right of way, it's a farmer's field.
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Re: Whitelow by vagabondnma on Monday, 28 March 2005
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Background:
SD805163 Fully excavated between 1961-4 by Bury Archaeological Group (they were going to put a TV mast on it!). Classed as a Bronze Age enclosed cremation cemetary according to the report (Bury Reference Library). They found a "slghtly oval bank 2 metres wide, enclosing a small central cairn and inner semi-circular bank partly defined by small boulders. Five cremations with collared urns in varying states of preservation, and six un-urned were found in central and southern parts of the site. One urn gave a C14 date of 3595+/- 20 BP and another C14 3635 ....(uncalibrated)."

Grave goods included lithic material, clay studs, accessory vessels and a bronze awl.

Some of the cairn had been damaged by farming, also by robbing and also by a stone lined kiln built into the NW enclosing bank. In the 1960's it was completely excavated then put back. BUT it is still well worth a look and is quite impressive. Not least because of two standing stones on its summit and a large glacial erratic also there. Plus there is a fabulous view.

The quarry to the North of it has not only demolished the Old Bury Rd, thought to be an ancient trackway (the report also lists three Roman coin hordes in the area - including Whitelow itself adding to this theory), but also two known other cairns, one at Bank Lane, half a mile North. The other is listed in the Bury Arch Society list as Shuttleworth Cairn 804165. The first 19th Century OS map has the nearby farm listed as The Lowes.

Access:
Take Walmersley Old Rd off Walmersley Rd at the traffic lights. Go all the way up until you reach the Old Raglan (?) pub (they brew their own beer!). You are best parking there as there is nowhere to park further up. Then walk the last half mile North up the road. You will pass a large fallen stone in a field on your right (an old marker stone?). Eventually you will see the hill in a field to the left of the road (shortly after the tarmaked bit ends). It is a farmer's field, but the gate is not locked and access is easy - though I suppose you should ask.

Some locals once knew it as the Devil's Playground - according to the Arch report (Bury Ref Library).

I will take a camera next time and post some pictures.
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