{"id":4452,"date":"2025-08-17T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:44:41","slug":"anglezarke-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"AngleZarke Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another great tour of the West Pennine Moors led by the team at Horwich Heritage Centre. As in previous years it was headed by Derek Cartwright with help from Gary Rhodes and this time with Ste Hamer and Phil Luff, former Rivington Ranger. As on the first trip, we met at Jepson\u2019s Gate where Derek gave a quick overview of what he as about to show us. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"wp-image-4447\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jepsons-Gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jepsons-Gate.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jepsons-Gate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jepsons-Gate-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jepsons-Gate-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>He then led the way across the moor to our first site, i.e. Pike Stones. This monument is referred to in its scheduling (No.1009120) as being a chambered long cairn dating from the early to mid Neolothic (i.e. 3400 \u2013 2400 BC). All that is left though is a group of large gritstone slabs leaning against one another. Originally it would have been covered by a large mound perhaps 48m long and up to 19m wide. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=4429\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4429\">continue reading&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great tour of the West Pennine Moors led by the team at Horwich Heritage Centre. As in previous years it was headed by Derek Cartwright with help from Gary Rhodes and this time with Ste Hamer and Phil Luff, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}