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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:
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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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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