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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stump Cross (Mereclough)Country: England County: Lancashire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Village: Mereclough
Map Ref: SD8781130029 Landranger Map Number: 103
Latitude: 53.766463N Longitude: 2.186392W
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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Ancient Cross in Lancashire
Stump Cross is a possible Bronze Age standing stone at Mereclough, near Burnley. This stone, stands by the side of the road in Mereclough at NGR: SD 87811 30029, close to the site of the Mosley Height stone circle.
This cross is Grade II listed - see Historic England List ID 1072633, which tells us the Stump Cross is on the north side of the road, and is one of the five guidestones which marked the line of the Long Causeway. HE dates it to "probably late medieval" and describe it as a "large, roughly-hewn upright set against a later dry stone wall, the relatively smooth front face crudely inscribed STUMP near the bottom".
The cross is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 45347, which classifies this as a medieval wayside cross, adding that a "portion of the shaft five feet high is all that remains".
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for the Stump Cross, Near Mereclough, Lancashire, which includes photographs, a description, directions for finding this site and a list of reference sources for more information. The Journal adds: "The thinking is that it was originally a Bronze-Age standing stone that had stood on the moors, or it had came from a nearby stone circle? In more recent times, however, it seems to have been chopped down to its current height for it to become a marker stone or guide post, and then brought in to use as a wayside cross; there are other crosses close to the Long Causeway, which is a medieval trackway linking the towns of Burnley, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge".
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