| Summary : A cairnfield in Hagg Wood, Honley. It is situated at the end of a plateau. There are nine cairns, between 3 metres and 8 metres in diameter, and up to 0.6 metres high. Towrads the southern end of the cairnfield are two parallel rubble banks which run approximately south east-north west, from the scarp at the edge of the plateau to the west edge of the wood. The rubble banks are about 3 metres wide and up to 0.3 metres high. The cairnfield also includes two circular features which may be hut circles. The southern of these is a slight hollow with a level base about 12 metres in diameter. The northern one is largely obscured by holly trees, but is visible as a rubble bank where it is crossed by a path at the northern end of the cairnfield. Two of the cairns were excavated with finds consisting of two barbed and tanged arrowheads, flint fragments, waterworn stones, and charcoal. Scheduled. |
More information : SE 149 105. A group of seven cairns, two linear banks,
and a ring bank, were surveyed in Hagg Wood by the Huddersfield
Arch. Soc. Two of the cairns were excavated finds consisting of
two barbed and tanged arrowheads, flint fragments, waterworn
stones, and charcoal. Five postholes were found beneath one
of the cairns, but no positive evidence of a burial. (1)
Surveyed at 1/2500 and centred at SE 1493 1046. These features
have many similarities to other sites in the area (cf. SE 11 S.W.
6 & 8) and are equally enigmatical. The complex, however, is not
comparable with a cairn cemetery, nor do the 'cairns' resemble
individual grave mounds. The 'ring-bank' cannot be properly
described as such, and resembles a circular depression quite
unlike known ring-banks in this region (cf. SK S.W. 3).
The interpretation of this site by Huddersfield Arch. Soc.
appears to be based upon the discovery of the two arrow-heads.
Local authoritative opinion, however, implies that both were
chance finds away from the excavated area.
Sufficient ground evidence is thus still lacking for any
positive identification of the site at present. (2)
SE 149105. The 39ft diameter ring work was excavated by the
Huddersfield and District Archaeology Society in 1968. A large
area of burning of the leached, smooth surface beneath the humus
layer at the centre of the dished interior was revealed. The
bank consisted mainly of soil scraped from the interior and some
gritstone. Two post holes of later date, and two stake holes
may be contemporary. A few waste flints were recovered from the
primary level.
Group of 7 cairns, 2 linear banks and a ring bank scheduled as
prehistoric earthworks. (3-4)
SE 149 105. Prehistoric earthworks in Hagg Wood. Scheduled. (5) |