This is a tough area to walk as there are few footpaths, certainly between the sites mentioned here. So wear some stout boots. Wherever you look there are possibilities of past human settlement, my imagination ran riot. Top place though
Dave 3rd March 2004
Can there be a significance that Round Loaf and Pikestones are aligned perfectly along a line between the top of Great Hill and the view point over Anglezark reservoir?
The line runs exactly north east – south west.
The distance between Round Loaf and the top of Great Hill is exactly the same as that between the view point and Pikestones.
Refering back to the standing stone on Stonstrey bank and the triangles: Assuming that Pikestones marks the bottom left point and Round Loaf marks the top point, this same distance marks precisely where the smaller triangle sits along that line, away from Pikestones.
I would really appreciate any input.
This area must have been a very sacred place to our ancesters. I hope that we can unravel some of it’s secrets.
I’ve just come across the following documentation. I think it may be the latest published survey and excavation report covering the Anglezarke area.
The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society No 61, 1996
pp 133 – 166
“Seeing the Sites : Survey and Excavation on the Anglezarke Uplands, Lancashire”
By Christine Howard Davis
With contributions by
M. Bain, H. Bamford, B. Barnes, R. H. Leech & J. Quartermaine
ArchSearch shows a Jepson’s Gate Cairn at SD6217 threatened by erosion , possibly Bronze Age .
The Anglezarke Moor Group has been created to collect together previously known sites and more importantly, new features that are appearing out of the eroding covering of peat.
The perimeter of this area have been defined using where possible landscape and are :-
West – Stronstrey Bank escarpment.
East – A675 (as it runs along the “valley” bottom between Turton & Anglezarke Moors)
South – The road from Belmont to Rivington village (as it runs at the base of Rivington Moor escarpment)
North – Dean Black Brook. (Separating Anglezarke from Wheelton Moor)
Over time it may be decided that some of these should not be considered in “isolation” but may be linked to other sites in the surrounding area.
As features are rediscovered they probably won’t appear on any maps and so may not be named. In cases like this I suggest they are named Anglezarke Misc 1, 2 etc until a proper naming convention is found.
A brief history of Anglezarke including a defination of the place name.
A new web site, looking at archaeological site around Chorley.
The chairman has had an interest in the prehistoric sites on Anglezarke moor for most of his life.
