<< Our Photo Pages >> Broadbank - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Lancashire
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Multi-periodSite Name: Broadbank Alternative Name: Burwains Enclosure; Burwains CampCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Burnley Nearest Village: Thursden
Map Ref: SD9023935227 Landranger Map Number: 103
Latitude: 53.813234N Longitude: 2.149725W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Treehugger wrote in 2004: it is a 'henge like' structure - there is also the remains of a stone circle in this field which I have been told is Burwains Farm Stone Circle. Can anyone shed light on this? [Note April 2017: see comments below for more information].
This circular hill top enclosure is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 46151, the latest entry of which is from 1975 and tells us the camp was possibly unfinished. The site is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1013814, which tells us this is: "(a) prehistoric defended settlement. It is located on a hilltop on the northern side of the steep-sided Thursden Valley and includes a circular enclosure surrounded by an inner ditch and an outer bank. The enclosure measures approximately 45m in diameter, the ditch measures c.0.3m wide by 0.25m deep, and the outer bank measures c.2m wide and up to 0.3m high. There are opposed entrances through the bank and across the ditch on the west and east sides".
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for the Broadbank Earth Circle/Enclosure, Briercliffe, Lancashire, which includes directions for finding this enclosure, together with photographs, background information and a list of reference sources for more information.
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