OneGuyFromBarlick

Stanley - have arrowed a feature on your Bancroft image. Looks like an early circular occupation platform (house) but could be related to the mill. Any ideas?

Nice one Tizer - this is from the Roman Road Research Organisation who use LiDAR to locate lost Roman roads. It is interesting that our stretch of the Kirkham-Ilkley road (from Downham to Skipton) is the only length following the projected alignment. The essence of the article is that the Romans sur...

Your enclosure feature is accurate Stanley - especially given it was drawn from groundwork and not air information. Interestingly, there is also a very faint trace of a square enclosure within this circle. The 'field system' to the south of this is modern intake of the moor through a large drainage ...

Thanks for that Stanley - Hollegille (hol = hollow) fits the landscape exactly where a deep running gulley passes through a well defined depression at Howgill. Just noticed that I have made a mistake in that Stratsurgham should be Stratsurgum. This makes a big difference to the site context in that ...

STRATSURGHAM - a lost village at Middop? I have been meaning to get over to Howgill (a hamlet on the road from the A683 to Rimington) for some time - I have driven through the place many times but never walked it – until today. I have been busy with lost village sites along the route of the Ribches...

I think that the age of the building - or at least the wall containing the feature - is the answer. I would guess that the core fabric of the building is Elizabethan and, if so, then the feature could well have been incorporated into the wall as a font. This was common practice post-Dissolution wher...

I think the Wheathead Heights disturbance is stone extraction but I was told years ago that there had been an alum mine in that area. Not sure if this is correct or where the information came from.

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/11626/medium PJ's location at SD834435 (south west of Craven Laithe Farm, Middop). The LiDAR image shows the square feature (arrowed) to be formed by two drainage ditches, a trackway and the Collaver Syke stream. However, a short distance no...

JP - have attached image of a feature at: X (Easting) 383965 Y (Northing) 442374 SD 83965 42374 Lat 53.87731 Long -2.24539 West of Height House Farm on Wheathead Height which I think is the one you have noted? https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/11619/medium Well spotted - I ca...

A Survey Of Lands In Roughlee Booth In Forest Of Pendle in 1809 (Document In Lancashire County Records Office, Preston DDBD 36/31) Detailed by RS 28/04/2010 The above survey doesn't list a Crowtrees Farm or a Judson Farm - it does list 'cottages' owned by Mary Judson and tenanted by: Joseph Holden ...

JP - if you can post an image of the LiDAR feature (or a coordinate for the site) I'll run it through GIS to see what we might have. We haven't covered this area in any detail in the BCNWC Project survey so it would be very useful for someone like yourself to look over it.

Have been sidetracked lately by archaeologist types in Bacup - a fascinating landscape over there which, as it turns out, appears to have been directly linked to our area. Early stages yet but it could well be that the Broadclough area was densely settled in prehistory - it has many defensive featur...

Wendy - if the cottage was erected on the footprint of an earlier building it might have incorporated the stone chimney stack - the cottage as it stands appears to be the result of a number of building compromises. There is a Jeppe Knave Grave on the Pendle Hill ridge brow above Sabden. Geap = lofty...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/11243/medium Nice one Wendy - have highlighted possible defensive ditches and banks. https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/11242/medium An exaggerated view looking east across Letcliffe shows the level area on the hill top.

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/11142/medium Very interesting topic this. Just to add an observation for what it's worth it appears that the gable of the Legion building incorporates the gable wall of a demolished bay that would have been another room in front of the cotta...

Thanks for the image Wendy - I've never looked at Letcliffe from this direction - goes some way to confirming what I hoped would be on that side of the site. Have drawn in two features that stand out - the lighter one appears to be a well defined right-angle bank and ditch and the orange line is the...

Any chance of a photo Wendy?

Spot on Stanley. As for David Ratledge - he's wrong an a number of counts. It is one thing 'finding ' lost Roman roads on LiDAR (that stick out like a sore thumb) and quite another locating and interpreting subtle features within the ancient landscape. The LiDAR he sent is a stitched supra-metre ima...

Whyperion - it would be a good idea to look in the retaining walls etc. in the terraced banking behing Manchester Rd - there would be no timbers but possible reused early stonework. Stanley - you put an image in the Forgotten Corners forum - Hill Top Farm - ignoring the building this is a great phot...

OK Ian - thanks for that. Looks like it's horses for courses - mobile apps useful for navigation and dedicated GPS for surveying.

Ian - I'm interested to hear that the mobile phone GPS can navigate to within inches of coordinate points. I'm confused, however, as to whether the apps allow for cross-reference of mobile signal and satellite? I trained with Oxford Uni Archaeology on GPS costing £15,000 - this system combined mobil...

Wendy - this is the age-old problem with ground-based survey. What might appear to be featureless level ground can turn out to have been very different thousands of years ago. The Hare Hill LiDAR illustrates this nicely. Taking the extended landscape features into account the raised oval area on whi...

Thanks for the map David - useful for locating lost tracks etc. - all maps and plans gratefully received. I was in Foulridge this afternoon so had a look up at Letcliffe. This confirmed a niggling notion I've had since I started looking at the area through LiDAR. A quick look at the landscape confir...

Thanks Ian for the Co-op images - looks like it was an impressive building. Glad to hear you're up for a field survey - perhaps the weather might be suitable in another month or so. Stanley - you did well to get that head image from that photo. Having seen it in more context I'm going to backtrack o...

OK David - that's brilliant - thanks.