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<< Our Photo Pages >> Tooter Hill (Bacup) - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Lancashire

Submitted by Sunny100 on Sunday, 15 May 2011  Page Views: 8386

Multi-periodSite Name: Tooter Hill (Bacup)
Country: England County: Lancashire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bacup  Nearest Village: Sharneyford
Map Ref: SD888237
Latitude: 53.709601N  Longitude: 2.171157W
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
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 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
0No data.
3 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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Tooter Hill (Bacup)
Tooter Hill (Bacup) submitted by Sunny100 : Prehistoric Settlement on Tooter Hill (Toot Hill) near Bacup, Lancashire. Transverse arrow-head found at the site by my good friend and local archaeologist, Mr Stephen Oldfield. Many thanks mate. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Lancashire

Tooter Hill in the Rossendale Valley is located on the moors about one and a half miles north-east of Bacup and 1 mile south-east of Sharneyford village and the A681 Todmorden road. Parrock farm is a few hundred yards to the north-west of the hill. There are some small mounds and earthworks on Tooter Hill, which are considered by archaeologists to be a long lost Neolithic settlement or perhaps an enclosure, but as to whether these earthworks are more recent due to quarrying, that has not, as yet, been established.

What is of interest, however, are the number of artefacts that were dug up from beneath the peat on Tooter Hill. A tanged and barbed arrow-head with serrated edges (probably an archery weapon) dating from the Neolithic period 4,500BC-2,500BC was excavated along with another arrow-head from the Bronze-Age period 2,500BC-700BC, and also a tranchet-shaped arrow-head (date unknown). These are housed in the N.A.T.S museum at Bacup. There is also a collection of small flint implements from Tooter Hill, including a flint scraper, flint adze and a flint borer.

Sadly, quarrying has taken place around the site and, although this has long since ceased, much damage has been done to the immediate area, destroying what may well have been a prehistoric site of some importance.

Update January 2018: The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this settlement - see their entry for Tooter Hill, Bacup, Lancashire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with a description and a photograph of some flints found at the site.
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SD8823 : View from the Northern Flanks of Tooter Hill by Chris Heaton
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SD8824 : Open Gateway on the Flanks of Tooter Hill by Chris Heaton
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SD8824 : Broken Stone Wall on Little Tooter Hill by Chris Heaton
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SD8923 : Path over Tooter Hill by Bill Boaden
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SD8923 : Rossendale Way approaching the A681 at Clough Head by Chris Heaton
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Re: Tooter Hill (Bacup) by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 25 November 2015
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Please note the prehistoric artefacts from the settlement on Tooter Hill near Sharneyford, are displayed in the N.A.T.S museum on Yorkshire Street in Bacup, not as I said 'The Pitt Rivers Museum' - don't know what happened there !!
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