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The Bridestones (Cheshire)
Date Added: 8th Aug 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Access 5
The Bridestones (Cheshire) submitted by astronomer on 15th Apr 2011. Lifting the fallen monolith during the 1936-37 excavation.
Photo taken by the then land owner, Mr. G. Ech Roger Jnr. Previously unpublished image made available by the present owner of the glass negatives, Doug Pickford.
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Gawton's Stone
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Gawton's Stone submitted by Sunny100 on 12th May 2010. Gawton's Stone at SJ.898554/5
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Gawton's Well
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4
Gawton's Well submitted by TimPrevett on 4th Nov 2008. Got around to visiting here yesterday, and it's brilliant. It's only 16 miles east for me, so returning won't be too much of an issue. Very atmospheric woodland and castle like folly neaby too. I wouldn't be surprised if therein lies a connection with the well.
The spring lies within a large circular wall, in varying states of collapse, and within that is an elipse of yew trees - reminiscent of the ring of trees in "Nightmare Before Christmas". If this were Wales I'd start thinking this was th...
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Shepherd's Cross
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Shepherd's Cross submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Aug 2006. Viewed from across the road. The west Staffordshire / east Cheshire border runs along the ridge to rear left. See main entry for details - click on blue text to left of picture.
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St Edward the Confessor
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5
St Edward the Confessor submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Apr 2005. Putting both crosses within context of each other; the 8th Century Cross is nearest, the 7th Century Cross to the rear. Click on the blue highlighted text to the top left of the pic for more information.
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Red Cross
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Red Cross submitted by astronomer on 6th Aug 2006. West side of the Red Cross, Knypersley, Staffordshire.
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The Winking Man
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
The Winking Man submitted by TimPrevett on 5th Nov 2006. The Winking Man - a natural convincing anthropomorphic rock formation on Ramshaw Rocks at SK 02021 62362. This is in North Staffordshire on the west side of the Leek - Buxton Road. The route immediately below the rock outcrops is on a Roman Road, and remains one of the most accident prone deadly A roads in the country. Parking is to west of the Rocks (good layby at SK 01746 62012), then a fairly easy walk up to near the summit, and the Winking Man is on the east side. Tripping hazards and drops...
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Bawd Stone
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bawd Stone submitted by vicky on 2nd Sep 2001. The Bawdstone, possible dolmen, near Hen Cloud, The Roaches, Staffordshire GR: SJ009620
This so called ‘dolmen’ was described by antiquarian J.D. Sainter in his book ‘Scientific Rambles Round Macclesfield’ in 1878:
"At a short distance south of Rock Hall, there may be observed on the opposite side of Hen Cloud a block of gritstone, which upon approaching it, is found to be rested or balanced, in the first place, upon a short edge of rock and then upon two upright and pointed pilla...
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The Wrekin
Date Added: 16th Aug 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
The Wrekin submitted by TimPrevett on 2nd Jan 2005. Lookin to the North East, between the outer and inner ramparts of The Wrekin.
The path enters the inturned ramparts to the central area; the trig point and toposcope sit upon a Bronze Age Cairn, which is hardly in evidence.
Another, more slight rampart is visible to the left of the picture, before the hill becomes more rounded.
See main entry - click on the blue text to the left of the picture for more information.
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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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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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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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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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Clulow Cross
Date Added: 21st Aug 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 21st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Clulow Cross submitted by vicky on 22nd Jul 2002. Clulow Cross - possibly a prehistoric round barrow surmounted by a more recent cross.
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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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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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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!
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.
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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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.