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<< Text Pages >> Greasby Copse - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Merseyside

Submitted by megalithiac on Saturday, 25 January 2020  Page Views: 3488

Multi-periodSite Name: Greasby Copse Alternative Name: Gravesberie
Country: England County: Merseyside Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Greasby
Map Ref: SJ25788664
Latitude: 53.371387N  Longitude: 3.116986W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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no data 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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Prehistoric settlement in Merseyside

The origins of a Wirral village have been found to be around 6,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.

A series of new boundary signs are to be unveiled next week proclaiming the township of Greasby contains the earliest dated settlement in western Britain – and one of the oldest in the country.

The work that led to the latest ‘dating’ of Greasby began with excavations near Greasby Copse between 1987 and 1990 by archaeologists from the Museum of Liverpool.

The team uncovered a substantial settlement with stone floor, pits, large working hollows and a fireplace together with over 12,000 early stone tools. At that time, the site was dated at 7000 BC or earlier and ascribed to the Mesolithic period.

However, as a result of the proposals for the signs to celebrate Greasby’s significant historical status, Ron Cowell, curator of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Museum of Liverpool, raised further funds for carbon dating of hazelnut shells found in the stone hearth.

This revealed that the remains were even earlier than previously estimated and dated from around 8,500 BC.

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Re: Greasby Copse by Andy B on Saturday, 25 January 2020
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Thanks for this megalithiac - very interesting. Can you find any press photos of the dig or related as I'd like to put this on our front page (even though it's from 2017)
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