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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
Coatestown Barrow
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gratton Hill
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gratton Hill submitted by twentytrees on 3rd Sep 2006. Barrow 13527, looking north with Narrowdale Hill in the distance on the left.
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Gateham Grange
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gateham Grange submitted by twentytrees on 12th Feb 2008. The third of the three.
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Wetton Hill
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Wetton Hill submitted by twentytrees on 13th Aug 2006. Sunset. The barrow is on the left. Approx. 8m diameter and 1.5m high.
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Bincliff Bowl Barrows
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bincliff Bowl Barrows submitted by TwentyTrees on 24th Jan 2008. The best preserved of the two barrows at the intersection of the field walls.
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Ravens Tor Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ravens Tor Bowl Barrow submitted by TwentyTrees on 25th Jan 2008. From the west, with the crag in the distance being the other side of Dove Dale.
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Long Low
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Long Low submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Jul 2006. Looking along Long Low to the SSW. Two interesting things about Long Low: 1) It is the only long barrow in Staffordshire, and 2) It has rounded ends, which are either described as two round barrows, or as rounded terminals. This is very reminiscent of the Broadmayne Bank Barrow in Dorset. Drystone walling intersects it in several places, and I styal is incorporated into one of the western side walls.
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Highfields Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Highfields Bowl Barrow submitted by TwentyTrees on 25th Jan 2008. View from the south showing the full extent of the barrows 36m diameter.
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The Battle Stone (Ilam)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Battle Stone (Ilam) submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Jul 2006. The Battle Stone - remains of an 11th Century Cross in the grounds of Ilam Hall. For most straightforward access, leave the church with the two Saxon Crosses, left to the river, then before the river turn right for a pleasant walk along its side. The cross is on the right hand side after about 10 minutes walking, as a wide meadow arcs to the left. The cross was not discovered until 1840, and the name, one must suppose, is down to the imagination of those who discovered it.
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Dun Low
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dun Low submitted by postman on 18th Dec 2012. Looking east. Surmounted by ten trees, an oddly round number. standing stones abound in the field next door but they're only old gateposts
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Ilamptops Low
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ilamptops Low submitted by TwentyTrees on 24th Jan 2008. Fine barrow surmounted by a tree on the ridge that separates the Manifold and Dove rivers. Highly prominent located on a local high point at 336m.
Shown as both Ilam Tops and Ilamtops, but not IlamPtops, on OS map.
Scheduled monument : "Limited antiquarian investigation at the centre of the mound located a rock cut grave containing a fill of stones amongst which were a child's skull and scattered bones of an adult. At the base of the grave was a layer of charcoal, an oak timber and an ox ...
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Lady Low
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lady Low Barrow submitted by postman on 5th Dec 2012. Perched on a cliffs edge, Lady low.
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Barrow near Lady Low
Date Added: 26th Sep 2015
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit