Cairnfield, Hagg Wood, Honley

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  • location: Hagg Wood, Honley
  • category: ancient monument

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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.

Historic England Listing

  • Scheduled Monument
  • first listed 7 January 1980
  • listing entry number 1018555

Cairnfield in Hagg Wood, Honley, 375m south east of Upper Hagg.

The monument includes a cairnfield in Hagg Wood, Honley. It is situated at the end of a plateau. There are nine cairns, between 3m and 8m in diameter, and up to 0.6m high. Towards 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 3m wide and up to 0.3m 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 12m 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.

The cairnfield in Hagg Wood survives well and will retain important archaeological information including its relationship to the settlement associated with it. It is similar to two other cairnfields in woods in the Honley area.

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