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Tag Archives: Halifax
Rocking Stone, Warley Moor, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Legendary Rock: OS Grid Reference – SE 03399 30199 Getting Here From Denholme, take the A6033 Hebden Bridge road up, but shortly past the great bend turn off right up the steep road towards the moorland windmills until you reach … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Sacred Nature, Yorkshire, West
Tagged animism, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Calderdale, druids, earth mysteries, folklore, goblins, Halifax, history, legends, Luddenden, megalithic, Megaliths, Midgley, Ovenden, rocking stones, sacred sites, Saltonstall, Wainstalls, Warley Moor, West Yorkshire
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Mount Zion, Illingworth, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Cist (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 068 297 Archaeology & History As with a number of prehistoric burials in the Halifax district, there is no longer any trace of the original site here. It was a place that I … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, cairns, Calderdale, cists, death, dentistry, Halifax, Illingworth, Mixenden, neolithic, Ogden, Ovenden, prehistoric sites, tombs, tumulus, West Yorkshire
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The Carrs, Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 0555 2993 Also Known as: Rough Carrs Getting Here Troublesome to get to if you don’t know the area. You can get here rom Halifax, up through Highroad Well towards Wainstalls, keeping to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Calderdale, ditches, dykes, earth mysteries, Earthworks, enclosure, England, english heritage, Halifax, heritage, Iron Age, Ogden, Ovenden, prehistoric sites, Romano-British, Romans, settlement, Wainstalls, West Yorkshire
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Shaw Hill, Skircoat, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Tumulus (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 094 242 Archaeology & History The remains here have long since succumbed to that self-righteous advance of industrial civilization. Even when the Halifax historian John Watson (1775) first described what had been here, … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, Calderdale, death, Halifax, prehistoric sites, tumuli, tumulus, West Yorkshire
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Stannary, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Stone Circle (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 088 256 Archaeology & History The place-name authority A.H. Smith (1961), in searching for the meaning behind the old region in Halifax known as “stannary”, just west of the town centre, was … Continue reading
Tower Hill, Warley, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Cairns (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 053 261 Archaeology & History There’s really nowt to see around here nowadays (apart from a lovely view of the hills and the Calder valley), but it seems that not-too-long ago there were … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, cairns, Calderdale, death, Halifax, Iron Age, Luddenden, Mount Tabor, prehistoric sites, Sowerby Bridge, tombs, tumuli, tumulus, urns, Warley, West Yorkshire
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Castle Hill, Kirklees, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 173 216 Getting Here Along the Brighouse to Mirfield A644 road, a half-mile east of M62’s junction 25 on Wakefield Road, note the woodland on your left-hand side, above the walling. Although on allegedly … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Earthworks, Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bradley, Brighouse, Calderdale, Earthworks, enclosures, Halifax, Hartshead, Iron Age, Kirklees, Mirfield, prehistoric sites, Robin Hood, Roman, Romano-British, settlements, West Yorkshire
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Warley Edge, Halifax, West Yorkshire
Cup-and-Ring Stone (lost): OS Grid Reference – SE 062 253 Archaeology & History A rare find in Calderdale, as it’s only one of a very small number of full cup-and-ring designs — though its exact whereabouts remains elusive. From Heginbottom’s (1979) … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Calderdale, carvings, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, english heritage, Halifax, Luddenden, neolithic, Petroglyphs, prehistoric rock art, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Sowerby Bridge, Warley, West Yorkshire
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Sowerby Lad, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire
Standing Stone (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 024 244 Archaeology & History Also known as the Field House Standing Stone, this monolith seems to have gone. It was first described in local Minister’s Accounts of 1403, and then again … Continue reading
Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, Wainstalls, West Yorkshire
Stone Circle (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 046 288 Archaeology & History All remains of this site, first mentioned as a stone circle in 1836, have gone. The place could be found by the appropriately named Stone Farm at … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Stone Circles, Yorkshire, West
Tagged alignments, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Calderdale, earth mysteries, english heritage, folk-lore, folklore, geomancy, Halifax, healing, legends, Luddenden, megalithic, Megaliths, Mixenden, myth, mythology, Robin Hood, Stone Circles, Wainstalls
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