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Grindon Moor Barrow
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Grindon Moor Barrow submitted by twentytrees on 9th Sep 2006. Well preserved, although unscheduled round barrow located at the highest point of what was Grindon Moor (the land is now dairy farming with a small part of the moor remaining nearby).
The tree is rooted in the barrow.
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Log Text: Visible from the road. A footpath crosses the field containing the site. The field is full of lumps, bumps, mounds, pits etc.
Hurst Low
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Apr 2013
Hurst Low submitted by twentytrees on 9th Sep 2006. Marked as Tumuli on the map but this may refer to nearby Grindon Moor barrow. There appears to be numerous mounds in a line (lined up on nearby Butterton church spire?) but they are in a much denunded state, so difficult to be sure. Not scheduled.
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Log Text: Saw a huge misshapen mound in the field containing Hurst Low but that looked more like a spoil heap or something. Large agricultural building has been erected nearby in same field too. Whole area very messy with vehicles parked in the field and bits of rusty agricultural equipment lain about. Failed to I.D. the barrow.
Caltonmoor
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th May 2014. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Caltonmoor submitted by twentytrees on 7th Mar 2007. View from the road.
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Log Text: Descheduled rather than unscheduled. Calton Moor Barrow is probably seen by more people each day than any other in Staffordshire, but it is virtually destroyed. Of the four quadrants only one partially survives and that's badly plough damaged. Main reason for descheduling though is the track cutting through the centre which Carrington reported.
Top Low 1
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th May 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Log Text: Site is located on private land with no footpath access to site. However, both sets of field walls between the public footpath lower down the hill and the site are down for some reason there is nothing to prevent anyone from climbing to the top of the hill at the moment.
Top Low 2
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th May 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Log Text: Footpaths run along the hillside above the site and along the valley floor below. Mutilation on the mound reveals natural rock, so the barrow may merge with a natural feature. Sheep using the hollow on the top of the barrow as a bed when I visited.
Damgate Cairns 2
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Damgate Cairns 2 submitted by TwentyTrees on 24th Jan 2008. The two northerly barrows either side of the gap in the dry stone wall which is built over both.
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Log Text: Visible from Ilam Moor Lane, the footpath running through the adjacent field and from Pasture Lane, Stanshope near to Stanshope Cairns 1.
Stanshope Cairn 1
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Stanshope Cairn 1 submitted by twentytrees on 27th Oct 2007. The barrow in the foreground on the far side of the wall with the cows on!
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Log Text: No parking at the end of Pasture Lane, but only a short walk to this site along the Lane. Pasture Lane is not a vehicular access.
Stanshope Cairn 2
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2013. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4
Stanshope Cairn 2 submitted by twentytrees on 27th Oct 2007. The view from the lane with Alstonefield church beyond.
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Log Text: Descheduled. The earthwork mound reported by Bateman has gone. The natural rock outcrop shows little evidence of use for the funerary deposits recorded by Bateman and Carrington due to quarrying, the wall being built on top of it etc. Due to Bateman's vague description of location difficult to be sure this is the actual site he opened.
Rye Low
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rye Low submitted by twentytrees on 30th Oct 2007. View from the road. The barrow is prominent despite having trees nearby and one on top.
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Log Text: Well preserved apart from the central crater in which the oak tree stands. Public footpath from Brund to Sheen runs right past the Southern edge of the barrow.
Brund Low
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Brund Low submitted by stu on 10th Dec 2005. SK103618. The barrow of Brund Low, Sheen Hill beyond.
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Log Text: Visible from the road. Top has been levelled but otherwise in reasonable condition.
Booth Low 1
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Booth Low 1 submitted by twentytrees on 29th Aug 2006. The highest of the three Booth Low barrows visible is front of the building. 2.3m high with maximum dimensions 32.5x29m.
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Log Text: This is the barrow Elizabeth Biddulph calls Fawfieldhead Low in her book Leek's Forgotten Past. Very large, dwarfs the modern barn next to it. One of my favourite barrows in Staffordshire Moorlands.
Booth Low 2
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Booth Low 2 submitted by twentytrees on 3rd Sep 2006. The second of the three Booth Low barrows (although only two are scheduled) on the horizon left of centre, seen from the B5053 Longnor - Warslow road. Scheduled Monument 13523.
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Log Text: Not as large or as well preserved as Booth Low I. The field gate just happened to be open when I visited. The footpath runs below the site.
Booth Low 3
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2013. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Log Text: Possible only viewpoint for this site may be the road leading past Low farm (yes it is a public highway). Very badly damaged. Unscheduled?
Bishop's Wood
Date Added: 13th Aug 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Log Text: The road leading to the site is a private road. The main road running South from Loggerheads is very busy and nowhere to park. I would suggest parking in Loggerheads itself and walking to the site. There are paths leading nearly all the way around the fort. Ditches and banks visible in parts. Fairly heavily afforested.
Elkstone Barrow 1
Date Added: 7th Sep 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Elkstone Barrow 1 submitted by twentytrees on 9th Sep 2006. 1.4m high, 24x19m wide. Excavation found many artefacts. Very high location, on the border between the Staffordshire morrlands and the White Peak. Views in all directions and, apparently, a great place for flying model aeroplanes. Scheduled monument 22416.
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Log Text: The most visible of the three barrows in this field but also the most mutilated. The field is very rough pasture with lots of evidence of mining and quarrying. Reminded me a little of the field containing Grindon Moor Barrow. Fantastic panoramic views though. Elkstone II and III are to the South of this barrow so the mound to the West is not one of the scheduled barrows - it is shown on EH mapping as a disused limekiln. The Trig pillar on top of Merryton Low I can be seen on the horizon to the North-West.
Elkstone Barrow 2
Date Added: 7th Sep 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Log Text: Visible as a low, spread mound a short distance to the South of Elkstone I. The surface is fairly rough, like much of the field. The field drops away to the South of the barrow. Can be seen from Breech Road for a clearer view in profile.
Elkstone III is to the South-West of this barrow - the long quarry trench running North-South along the field has truncated its Western quadrants.
Holy Trinity Church, Eccleshall
Date Added: 7th Sep 2014
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Holy Trinity Church, Eccleshall submitted by TimPrevett on 12th Sep 2005. The right hand (eastern) cross fragment in the choir vestry. Please note, the light conditions were dire, and so I have edited the photo to bring out as much detail as possible. A wheelie bin used as a tripod for this one. See main entry for detailed write up.
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Log Text: None
Leekfrith Tumulus
Date Added: 19th Sep 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Leekfrith Tumulus submitted by Astronomer on 18th Mar 2004. A Bronze Age round barrow at Leekfrith SK003604.
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Log Text: Unscheduled barrow. Barnatt suggested it may be a glacial mound. Staffs H.E.R. records a possible Burnt Mound nearby.
Thorncliffe Barrow
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Roaches Barrow
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit