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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.
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.
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.
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.
Windywaycross
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Windywaycross submitted by Astronomer on 18th Mar 2004. Windywaycross, possibly a re-used standing stone on Ippestones Edge at SK056492 at a place called Windywaycross, just off the road branching to Alton Towers, off the Leek-Ashbourne road. Approaching from the north, the stone is 8m off the RH side of the road.
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Log Text: It has the date it was erected carved into it.
Hoften's Cross
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Hoften's Cross submitted by Astronomer on 18th Mar 2004. A 'rude' cross, possibly a re-used prehistoric, standing stone located near Caldon Low quarries at a crossroads called Hoften's Cross. There is a pub called the Cross (or something similar) over the road from this 2.5m standing stone, map ref SK072481 on the OS Explorer 259, Derby, Uttoxeter, Ashbourne & Cheadle map.
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Log Text: Visible from the road and the car park of The Cross pub across the road. A footpath enters the field where Hoften's Cross is located. The close proximity of a stable made this not one of the more scenic spots. A shame that the pub sign has a crusader knight on it rather than this rude cross!
Lamber Low
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Lamber Low submitted by twentytrees on 7th Mar 2007. Lamber Low in the foreground with a natural rock outcrop behind.
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Log Text: The field containing the site was full of cows. They seemed to have uncovered a patch of grass just below the barrow and broken the exposed stone. That may have been a remnant of the field wall.
Stonesteads
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Stonesteads submitted by twentytrees on 7th Mar 2007. Looking south, across the Hamps valley, to one of the ubiquitous Peak District quarries.
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Log Text: Rather overgrown when I visited. 'Gulliver' and the Cement works formed a contrasting backdrop. Must try to visit it again when the farmer has mown the fields.
The Butter Cross (Cheddleton)
Date Added: 12th Aug 2014
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Feb 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Butter Cross (Cheddleton) submitted by malboll on 27th Nov 2011. Cheddleton Buttercross.
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Log Text: Never seen so many gnats in one place! Other than that a really good site and easy to access.
Merryton Low 2
Date Added: 10th Jun 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Merryton Low 2 submitted by astronomer on 3rd Jun 2007. Merryton Low II. Accessibility 4, ambiance 3.
This is an odd one. The tumulus lies within sight of Merryton I just in from the edge of a low escarpment dropping down to the road from the Mermaid PH to Warslow. I parked on this road near to the side road to Elkestone. From this junction road there is a fence leading NW up to the edge.Climb the hill parallel to the fence and the tumulus sits 25m in front of you by the side of a track leading to Merryton Low 1.
Merryton II is an elongat...
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Log Text: Very narrow for a barrow
Merryton Low 1
Date Added: 10th Jun 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Merryton Low 1 submitted by astronomer on 3rd Jun 2007. Merryton Low fallen stone closeup. I suggest that this stone may have perhaps stood on the nearby tumulus and was replaced by the present Trig point.
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Log Text: The war memorial is to commerate members of the Leek Home Guard who then went on to serve in the regular armed forces and lost their lives in combat.
Brown Low (staffs)
Date Added: 8th Jun 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Brown Low (staffs) submitted by twentytrees on 9th Sep 2006. Brown Low, sometimes referred to as Brownlow, seen just to the right of the lonely tree which sits astride the dry stone wall near the centre of the photo. Taken from the path from Warslow.
Scheduled monument number 22412.
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Log Text: None
Blake Low
Date Added: 8th Jun 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Blake Low submitted by twentytrees on 29th Aug 2006. You can just discern the curve of the barrow in this picture - in real life it is more prominent - 1.1m high, and 25x22m. Investigation in the 19th century discovered a cremation, charcoal, and a flint scraper and knife.
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Log Text: An easy site to access but the wooden fence surrounding the site and the close proximity of the farm buildings give the site a rather 'hemmed in' feel to it.
Egg Well
Date Added: 5th Sep 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Egg Well submitted by TimPrevett on 26th Jul 2007. The cross shaped chamber, and stick I used to approximately gauge depth. Also notice the floating dead bodies - at least two frogs, and I think, something resembling a rat...
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Log Text: Improvements have been made to the site with an information board and fence to stop the local livestock crowding round the entrance!
Bosley Cloud (1)
Date Added: 21st Aug 2011
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 0000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4
Bosley Cloud (1) submitted by PaulM on 19th Aug 2002. Bosley Cloud Stone
This stone is located SJ905636 on the back slope of Bosley Cloud, a hill in Cheshire.
It is not known if this stone is prehistoric standing stone or a natural boulder but it has been utilised as a marker (a cross is carved into the top of the stone) for the Cheshire/Staffordshire county boundary which splitsthe Cloud. If it is natural it is fortuitously placed but it is a stone out of keeping with those in the immediate area.
A track runs right beside it.
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Sutton Hall
Date Added: 21st Aug 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Sutton Hall submitted by PaulM on 14th Aug 2001. This somewhat dilapidated barrow (now the resting place of a water trough) is located adjacent to the grounds of Sutton Hall (pricey country pub). NGR: SJ92497132 (map 118). It can be viewed from Bullocks Lane, Sutton (east of Macclesfield).
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Longgutter
Date Added: 21st Aug 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Longgutter submitted by astronomer on 26th Jul 2004. This elusive circle is mentioned by Paul and Vicky Morgan but is difficult to find although only 300m south of Bullstones. It might be a stone circle but then again may be the base of a roundhouse. In 1878, JD Sainter records roundhouses some 200m further south again, in the field north of the road.
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The Plague Stone
Date Added: 21st Aug 2011
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
The Plague Stone submitted by Vicky on 18th Oct 2001. THE PLAGUE STONE , Higher Sutton, near Macclesfield SJ9561469227
This wayside cross, possibly a Christianised standing stone, was apparently the place where goods were left by the healthy for sale to the plague-stricken. The latter took the goods and left the money in a pot of water. Interestingly the 1904 OS map shows an isolation hospital located near by.
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1989. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Sep 2006. The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. It does have a good section on prehistory, from the cave shelters, round barrows, Neolithic tools, Iron Age torc, and the only known cup and ring marked stone in Staffordshire.
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Hanley Stone Circle
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Hanley Stone Circle submitted by Sunny100 on 14th Jul 2010. Hanley Stone Circle on Quadrant Road. Another view of the modern-day circle.
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