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<< Our Photo Pages >> Fairy Holes - Cave or Rock Shelter in England in Lancashire

Submitted by philryder on Sunday, 07 March 2004  Page Views: 25636

Natural PlacesSite Name: Fairy Holes
Country: England County: Lancashire Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Clitheroe / Preston  Nearest Village: Whitwell
Map Ref: SD65534678  Landranger Map Number: 102
Latitude: 53.916010N  Longitude: 2.526279W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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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2 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
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Fairy Holes
Fairy Holes submitted by LivingRocks : The largest of the Fairy Holes, a second small cave is visible to the right. This site is not listed on Magicmap but Pastscape says ‘Excavation in 1946 by RS Musson recovered some sherds of Bronze Age pottery, animal bones, a pebble pounder, a flint flake and a core. Also present were 3 unidentifiable pieces of iron and a possible hearth. Two stone walls were noted across the mouth of the caveâ€... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave or Rock Shelter in Lancashire

Formed in a limestone outcrop on top of a small hill that overlooks Witewell and the River Hodder. Surrounded by mature mixed woodland.

Access: Location is at SD 6553 4676. From the Inn at Whitewell cross the river via the stepping stones, you may have to go round if the river is in flood, and follow the footpath up the hill towards the farm. There is a large steel gate on the left that leads in to the woodland but there is a sign on the gate saying no access to caves. If you choose to ignore this follow the higher of the two paths until the path starts to sweep to the right. At this point if you look up the hill to the right you can see the outcrop that the caves are located in. An alternative is to continue through the farmyard a short distance to the footpath on you left. Follow this up the hill for two hundred metres then turn east (90 degrees left) till you reach the fence. Follow this south till you reach a small gate in the fence at SD6551,4679. Walk straight ahead for 20 metres till you’re on top of the outcrop and the caves are immediately below you.

More information can be found at Pastscape Monument No. 43773, which adds this cave is "on New Laund Farm, is a nearly straight passage about 65ft long, 6ft wide and 10ft high at the entrance, finishing in a chamber about 8ft diameter and 12ft high. The platform in front of the cave is from 2 to 6ft wide, the edge dropping away almost perpendicularly for 20ft. Excavations in 1946 revealed Bronze Age potsherds, animal bones, a pebble pounder, a flint flake, a small core, three unidentifiable small pieces of iron and the possible site of a hearth. Two stone walls across the mouth of the cave were found."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also includes a page for this site - see their entry for Fairy Holes, Whitewell, Lancashire, which has alternative directions for finding this cave together with photographs, a plan of the cave chamber, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.

The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for this cave - see their page for Fairy Holes Cave, Whitewell, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, which includes photographs of the cave, a photograph of some of the artefacts found within the cave and a plan of its interior. The Journal also includes quotations from recent reference sources, together with a list of related websites where more information can be found. The Journal adds a quotation from John Dixon which reads: "in 1984 a large round stone was found in the river near to the inn. On closer inspection, archaeologists declared the carved-out stone to be a mortar used for grinding food grains, and they dated it to the Bronze Age. This stone is now locally known as ‘The Whitewell Stone’, which is today housed in the hotel in the village."
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Fairy Holes
Fairy Holes submitted by LivingRocks : One of two smaller caves at Fairy Holes situated to the left of the main cave. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Fairy Holes
Fairy Holes submitted by LivingRocks : Inside the largest cave. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Fairy Holes submitted by Bladup : A Fairy Hole. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Excavations at Fairy Holes Caves, Whitewell, Lancashire, 2013 by Andy B on Monday, 24 February 2014
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Excavations at Fairy Holes Caves, Whitewell, Lancashire, 2013
Draft Interim Report
Rick Peterson

http://www.academia.edu/4466975/Peterson_R._2013._Excavations_at_Fairy_Holes_Caves_Whitewell_Lancashire_2013._UCLan_Unpublished_excavation_report
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The 2013 Excavation of New Laund timber circle by Andy B on Monday, 24 February 2014
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Excavations at New Laund Farm, Whitewell, Lancashire, 2013
Draft Interim Report
Rick Peterson

Fieldwork was carried out on prehistoric sites around New Laund Hill during July 2013. The work was part of an on-going project investigating prehistoric use of the limestone landscapes around the south-eastern fringes of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

During 2012 two areas were excavated on the presumed site of a prehistoric enclosure on the eastern side of New Laund Hill (NGR SD 6521 4708), site C across the main bank and ditch and site D over one of the internal features (Peterson 2012).

These two investigations established that the monument was a Late Neolithic hengiform monument containing an internal timber circle. Both the external bank and ditch and the timber circle were associated with lithics and cremated human bone. During the spring of 2013 the opportunity arose to re-excavate the Early Bronze Age cave site at Fairy Holes Wood (NGR SD 6553 4678).

New Laund timber circle, excavation and geophysical evidence

The circle appears to have been around 15 m in diameter and to have been built using a combination of ditch segments and individual postholes. It probably had a single entrance, which faced north-west. The postholes in the excavated ditch section on the south side of the entrance were particularly large and it may be that there was an attempt to monumentalise the entrance in this way.

Within the excavated part of the entrance and interior of the timber circle we can see evidence for repeated use of the monument over time. The entrance was in use for long enough that it was necessary to create a cobbled surface or path running into the interior of the monument.

The results of the last two years of excavation and research show that this monument is likely to be a Late Neolithic timber circle which continues in use into the Early Bronze Age.

Report at
http://www.academia.edu/5822918/Peterson_R._2014._Excavations_at_New_Laund_Farm_Whitewell_Lancashire_2014._UCLan_Unpublished_excavation_report
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Re: Fairy Holes by Anonymous on Wednesday, 13 March 2013
hi is this cave got a small hole on ceiling ,and a waterfall soon as u go ecause i fell through that holeas child if it that cave it shud ave hill ontop and ledge ,because if so its a spiritulty cave and u dont belong there.
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Re: Fairy Holes by coldrum on Monday, 10 August 2009
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Pastscape site entry:

https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=43773
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