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Monument Number 45325
Hob Uid: 45325
Location : Lancashire Burnley Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood
Grid Ref : SD8911032590
Summary : Bronze Age round cairn surviving as a structure. An urned cremation in a cist was located in 1843.
More information : (SD 89113259) Stone Circle (NR) Urn Found AD 1842 (NAT) (1) Tumulus (Earth Circle) twenty one feet diameter containing calcined human bones, found here in 1842 by Mr Studley Martin. About a yard below the original surface an urn containing ashes and fragments of partially burnt bones was found; it was of course material and unornamented. Visited 1932. No remains of a stone circle but the site is occupied by the remains of a barrow 30 feet in diameter and barely 1 foot in height. (2-4) (SD 89113259) Cairn Circle (NR) (5) A cairn circle surveyed at 1.2500 (6) SD 8911 3259. Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture. Scheduled RSM No 23722. A circular mound of earth and stones 13m in diameter and up to 0.3m high. There are some shallow hollows on the cairn's surface, the largest at the centre measures approx. 2.5m x 1.5m x 0.3m deep. These are the result of Studley Martin's investigation of the cairn in 1843, which located an undecorated urn containing the cremated remains of an adult and a child, in a cist at the cairn's centre. (7)

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Source details : OS 6" 1928
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Source details : T Lancs & Ches AS XI 1893 158 Map 160 (T Wilkinson & W Harrison)
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Source details : Arch XXX 553 (S Martin)
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Source details : Lancs Megalith File 1923 (C W Phillips)
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Source details : OS 6" 1968
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : F1 BHP 04-SEP-74
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 23/9/94
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Round Cairn, Cist, Cinerary Urn, Cremation
Evidence : Structure, Find

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : LA 64b
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 23722
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SD 83 SE 15
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1843-01-01
End Date : 1843-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1974-09-04
End Date : 1974-09-04

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 45325