<< Text Pages >> Mount Skip (Hebden Bridge) - Cairn in England in Yorkshire (West)
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mount Skip (Hebden Bridge)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.744 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Hebden Bridge
Map Ref: SE00952748
Latitude: 53.743697N Longitude: 1.987075W
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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Cairn in Yorkshire (West)
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this now destroyed tumulus - see their entry for Mount Skip, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, an extract of which reads: "Up behind the old pub that was The Mount Skip, high on the ridge above Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, overlooking the Calder Valley for many miles, was once — it would seem — a number of fine prehistoric remains, long since destroyed by the industrial advance of quarrying and such likes. Amidst what seems to have been settlement remains and, perhaps, timber circles, an ancient grave was also known here."
Pastscape Monument No. 903292, which records: "'In May 1897 burials discovered at quarry when pieces of urn rolled down. Bones were found in a grave which was c. 6 feet long, 14-18 inches wide and c. 2 feet deep; it was aligned north-south and contained much charcoal...In the ends of the grave were about 6 inches of charred wood and bones mixed together at the bottom. Flints were also found and `the larger half of a small earthenware vessel'. The flints included a knife, 51 mm long, 23 mm wide and 7 mm thick: very worn'."
TNA quotes from the same essay, but intriguingly adds: "this was picked up by a man named Thos. Greenwood, of Shawcroft Hill (1906)."
Note: Does anyone have any historical information, drawings or images to add? Does anyone know the current location of any of the artefacts found in this grave?
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