SD7537 : Jeppe Knave Grave

near to Wiswell, Lancashire, Great Britain

Jeppe Knave Grave
Jeppe Knave Grave
The words ‘Jeppe Knave Grave’ on the OS map relate to this circular grass-covered mound about 15 m in diameter with a stone filled depression in the centre measuring 5 x 3 m.

This is thought to be a mutilated Bronze Age burial mound which would have originally contained the body of a local chieftain.

However local legend refers to a man Jeppe outlawed for breaking forest laws during early Norman times.

Whitaker in His History of Whalley (1818) said ‘The name occurs in a record of the boundaries between Wiswell and Pendleton dated 1342, and is there said to be derived from a robber who was beheaded and was buried at that point because the neighbouring vills refused to have him buried within them.’
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SD7537, 8 images   (find more images nearby)
Photographer
Peter Worrell   (find more nearby)
Image classification
Geograph
Date Taken
Wednesday, 16 April, 2008
Submitted
Wednesday, 16 April, 2008
Category
Burial chamber   (find more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 759 378 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:50.1735N 2:21.9980W
Photographer Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 759 378
View Direction
Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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