Prehistoric Calderdale

There is considerable local evidence of prehistoric human activity

• Mesolithic implements have been found at Soyland, on Saltonstall Moor, and at Widdop
• Neolithic artefacts and Bronze Age implements have been found at Norland Moor, Ringstone, West Vale, Warley, Midgley and Wadsworth, and at Blackheath Barrow, Stansfield. Many of these were near the Long Causeway
• There is evidence of another prehistoric trackway from Blackstone Edge to Sowerby Bridge
• The Celtic tribes – notably the Brigantes – have also left remains – such as stone heads – at Walsden and other parts of the district
• Tree stumps – remnants of Iron Age clearances can be seen in the peat on the moors above Cragg Vale
• From the 6th century AD, the Scandinavians had reached the area, sailing up the Humber and the tributaries, including the Calder

Local sites of interest

Abel Cross, Crimsworth Dean Badger Lane, Hebden Bridge Celtic Calderdale Cross Hill, Heptonstall Dobroyd Castle, Todmorden Giant's Tooth, Ovenden Moor Goose Clough, Ovenden Moor Greenwood Stone, Midgley Moor Higher House Moor Monolith Hippins Stone, Hebden Bridge Hoarstones, Blake Dean Iron Age Jackson's Ridge

Ladstone Rock, Norland Moor Lake Calder Lightcliffe Hoard Long Stoop, Todmorden Meg Dike, Barkisland Mesolithic Mount Cross, Todmorden Mount Skip The Nab, Ogden Naze Hill, Pecket Well Neolithic Age Joseph Noble Palæolithic Age Reaps Cross, Heptonstall Ridge Rough, Blake Dean Rocking Pig Rock Roman Calderdale

Roms Hill, Pecket Well Rudstoop standing stone, Cragg Vale Saltonstall Sleepy Lowe, Warley Moor Standing Stone Hill, Heptonstall Standing stones, Todmorden Stansfield monolith Stony Turgate Hill, Heptonstall Tinker Cross, Heptonstall Turley Holes Moor standing stones, Cragg Vale Two Lads standing stones, Todmorden Upper Lumb Stone, Cragg Vale Upper Westercroft, Northowram Whole Stone Moor Wolf-fold

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