Event: Explore With Archaeologists: Old Ruins & Ancient Monuments

Friday 07 June 2019 - Sunday 09 June 2019
10am - 3pm

From Lobden Golf Club
The Rake
Lobden Moor
Whitworth
OL12 8XJ

DETAILS:

Fancy a FREE weekend adventure?

Join archaeologists on an excursion into the hills around Whitworth to explore three distinctive, but little-known, ruins. There's an abandoned hamlet, a doctor's cottage, and a cluster of Bronze Age monuments, including a mysterious stone circle, to discover - many of which have never been officially explored before!

Each day, we'll set off on a new adventure heading out in a different direction to explore one of the sites. You can book any single excursion, or sign yourself up to all three!

Together we'll explore every nook and cranny. We'll show you how archaeologists identify and study them, and create an official survey of each ruin and ancient monument for the very first time.

Along the way, we’ll reveal the weird and wonderful history of each site, share some curious knowledge, and point out some surprising details that you’d probably never spot on your own.

Friday 7 June - Early Industrial Hamlets

Cowclough was once the largest settlement in Cowm Valley. Together, we’ll explore the ruins, create the first official map of the hamlet, and share some of the curious tales about its past residents, like James ‘Treacle’ Sanderson, a blacksmith who later became a national sporting champion.

Saturday 8 June - The Doctor’s Cottage

Brown Wardle Farm was once home to John Stott, a herbalist doctor who supplied the community with tinctures and potions in the early 19th-century. Together, we’ll explore the ruins, create the first official survey of the ruins, and share some of the dramatic events that brought this and many other nearby farms to an end in 1938.

Sunday 9 June - Bronze Age monuments

Man Stone is a huge, iconic hilltop stone surrounded by myth and legend. Together, we’ll look for traces of rock art, investigate reports of a burial mound and stone circle nearby, create the first official survey of these remarkable ancient monuments, and share some of the weird and wonderful discoveries archaeologists have made about how, and why, they were built.

Part of Mid Pennine Arts Spodden Valley Revealed programme, you can register for one or all three of these events on the link below.

Entry fee: Free

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