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Multi-periodSite Name: Greasby Copse Alternative Name: GravesberieCountry: England County: Merseyside Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Greasby
Map Ref: SJ25788664
Latitude: 53.371387N Longitude: 3.116986W
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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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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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