Pikestones
The heavily damaged Pikes Tones are the remains of a neolithic chamber tomb ( English Chambered tomb ) in the south of Lancashire in England . The Pikestones are located on Anglezarke Moor in the "West Pennine Moors", east of Chorley and southwest of Great Hill and the Round Loaf Tumulus . Only one other chamber grave is known from this area, the " Great Urswick Long Barrow " (south of Ulverston ).
The north-south oriented cairn , of which mainly the pikestones are left, was originally around 45.0 meters long and over 15.0 meters wide. The remains of the chamber covered by the approximately 0.4 m high Restcairn, consisting of five 1.6 to 2.0 m large sandstone slabs , lie at the higher end in the north. The chamber consisted of large, upright supporting stones which were covered by two ceiling tiles. It was about 4.5 m long and 0.9 wide and high. At the northern edge of the cairn an inwardly curved double wall could be made out, which belonged to the exedra of a forecourt. The type of system cannot be precisely determined.
literature
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain (= Shire Archeology. 73). Shire Archeology, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 .
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '59.5 " N , 2 ° 33' 57.3" W.