Jeppe Knave Grave on Pendle Hill

Jeppe Knave Grave on Pendle Hill
Jeppe Knave Grave on Pendle Hill
Jeppe Knave Grave on Pendle Hill
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Jeppe Knave Grave on Pendle Hill
Pendleton
Situated halfway between the nick of Pendle and Wiswell village this is a Bronze - Age burial site looking north. The edges of the Jeppe Knave Grave are walled and well-defined.Upon the largest stone are inscribed the words ‘JEPPE KNAVE GRAVE and a cross (inscribed by the Scouting Association in the 1960’s). The stone marks the final resting place of Jeppe Curteys (Geoffrey Curtis), a local robber who was decapitated for his crimes in the first year of Edward III, 1327. The name first occurs in a record of the boundaries between Wiswall and Pendleton dated 1342.

Glass slide, positive
Monochrome
7.32 x 5.56
c1900
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Box E 23/9
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