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Multi-periodSite Name: Red Rocks Alternative Name: Hilbre PointCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.155 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Merseyside Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Hoylake
Map Ref: SJ20328843
Latitude: 53.386677N Longitude: 3.199483W
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 Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Merseyside
Mesolithic to Early Bronze age flint working site
[SJ 20248853](2) Neolithic floor discovered at Hilbre
Point in 1914, when about 100 flints, associated with animal
remains and shell-fish, came to light resting on the thin layer
of clay (in many places blackened by fire) which underlies the sand.
The finds include lance-heads, a barbed arrowhead, round scrapers,
knives and borers. All are of Antrim flint.
The site can be compared to that at Red Noses New Brighton
[SJ 29 SE 1 - which extends from the Mesolithic to E. Bronze Age].
(1,2)
Hilbre Point is centred at SJ 20328843.
There is no trace of antiquity and the exact site of the chipping
floor could not be ascertained. (3)
SOURCE TEXT
( 1) General reference
Trans. Lancs. & Ches. A.S. 32, 1914. 245-6. (T.A. Glenn)
( 2) General reference
Corr. 6" (G. Webster 1949)
( 3) Field Investigators Comments
F1 TPW 26-AUG-64
Submitters Comments
This grid reference shows the site to be within the grounds of a private dwelling, currently a nursing home at the time of writing.
It is likely that the site was undeveloped in 1914 as a map of 1910 shows no buildings there. To quote from 'Prehistoric Cheshire' (Victoria & Paul Morgan, 2004):
"A number of Early Mesolithic tools have been found near New Brighton and at Red Rocks in Hoylake in what was then a flat, wooded landscape. These areas would have been attractive with well-drained soils and strategic views to the north, an area now under Liverpool Bay."
Today the surrounding area is a tidal beach with sandstone outcrops and sand dunes.
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