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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bosley Minn 4 & 5 Alternative Name: Minn End Lane 4 & 5, Wincle Minn Standing StonesCountry: England County: Cheshire Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Macclesfield Nearest Village: Wincle
Map Ref: SJ940662 Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.192851N Longitude: 2.09126W
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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gritstone visited on 1st Jun 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 As a complete inexperienced amateur, I'd say these are common stone gateposts, of which I can find many undocumented in this (my local) area, that are very similar to these.
Five standing stones are located on the popular hikers and cyclists path, ‘The Gritstone Trail’ near Wincle. Three prehistoric standing stones, believed to be genuine, and two possibly more recent additions are all located within two metres of the western edge of Minn End Lane.
This ‘genuine’ stone pair stand about 300m to the north of the first stone. Like it they are also short and slim, leaning heavily and resembling gate posts. The southern most stone of the two leans to the west and would again have stood at 1.2m when upright. Its colleague 2.4m metres to the north leans to the south and would have stood about the same height if it was not for the list. All three of these stone have weathered, rounded edges suggesting they have been exposed to the elements for a great many hundreds (if not thousands) of years.
See Bosley Minn I for further details and access
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Cheshire County Sites and Monuments Record
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