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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gawsworth hengeCountry: England County: Cheshire Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Macclesfield Nearest Village: Gawsworth
Map Ref: SJ920696 Landranger Map Number: 118
Latitude: 53.223386N Longitude: 2.12128W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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gritstone visited on 1st Jun 2020 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Close to home - nothing to see in 2020,
Until the 1980s the earthworks of a possible henge monument used to lie in a field alongside the Old Leek Road, just behind the Fool's Nook public house. The earthworks were roughly oval in shape with two entrances just slightly off a north-south axis. It had an inner bank of around 3 to 4m in height and an outer bank less than 1m, but no ditch. According to Gordon Rowley, 'in form it greatly resembles the 'henge' type of monument of the Late Neolithic era'.
Sadly the earthworks were destroyed in 1986 for agricultural reasons, so we will probably never know whether or not it was a henge. However, there is evidence of Neolithic activity in that area. Across the other side of the main Macclesfield to Leek road from the Fool's Nook, excavations at the Woodhouse End Beaker barrow produced a large amount of Neolithic pottery, suggesting there must have been a settlement close by. In addition, the Bridestones monument is only a few miles away.
References
Rowley, G. "Macclesfield in Prehistory", 1982
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