| Summary : An earthwork enclosure of uncertain date and function. It comprises an oval embankment with internal ditch, with a maximum external diameter of circa 58 metres. There are two entrances, one on the north-north-east and the other to the south-south-east. Only the latter was described in 1811. Neither need be original. A sub-rectangular enclosure is appended to it. Suggested interpretations for the oval enclosure include a henge or an Iron Age enclosure, while a sheep fold was suggested by the Ordnance Survey. An excavation in circa 1959 recovered some animal bones, Roman pottery, brooches and some chert and flint flakes. Scheduled. An early reference mentions the presence of a nearly-levelled mound nearby, but this has not been confirmed. |
More information : [SK 0691 7212] Earthwork [G.T.] (1)
Staden Low [SK 070722]. Doubtful henge monument. The exact plan of this earthwork, first recorded by Stukeley (a) is obscure, Jewitt (b) in 1811 described it as an oval embankment with internal ditch (diameters about 140 ft and 200 ft) with a single entrance on the SSE side. A later plan (c) [AO:62:290:5] shows a second entrance on the NNW both plans agree in showing a pentagonal enclosure, also with an internal ditch, abutting on the W. side of the oval. The site has been much disturbed, which may explain the northern entrance. (2)
120ft north-by-east from the circle "seems to be the base of what was probably a large mound" about 40 ft. by 20 ft. but now levelled. (3)
Earthwork visible on A.P's. (4)
A slight earthwork of irregular form with annexe. The work comprises a bank that at no point exceeds 0.1m in height, and in general is only c.0.05m. Neither ditch nor entrances are apparent. The topographical situation - below a high crest in a sheltered area - and the nature of construction suggest the site to have possibly been a fold, many of which exist on the low peaks.
Resurveyed at 1/1250.
No adjacent earthworks were noted. (5)
(SK 06917212) Staden Low earthwork. Finds made during excavation of the Staden earthwork (in 1959?) including animal bones, Roman pottery, a penannular brooch, an enamelled fibula and chert and flint flakes. (6)
SK 069721. Staden earthwork, Buxton. Scheduled. (7)
Listed as possible henge in Burl (8), though considered doubtful by Harding and Kee (9). (8-9)
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