Christmas Crossword 2024

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Across
  1. 4. Period of Lunt Meadows structure
  2. 7. The Great British ___
  3. 12. Type of ancient plant fossil from the Carboniferous period
  4. 13. Large flash in the Wigan borough
  5. 15. Digging for ____
  6. 16. What state was the Standish Hall fireplace left in?
  7. 17. Vault for the dead
  8. 18. Defensive towers in Cumbria
Down
  1. 1. Three large spoil heaps also known as "Wigan Alps" (5,7)
  2. 2. Site of groundbreaking prehistoric monument
  3. 3. Glossop Archaeology Society bronze age investigation (6,6)
  4. 5. Wigan artist who declined to sell pictures - "Not to the people who want them, the rich people" (8,5)
  5. 6. Location of viking burial from Rachel Newman's talk
  6. 8. Bronze Age stone circle in Cumbria with panoramic views
  7. 9. A place for casting
  8. 10. Mother of Jesus
  9. 11. Clay writing system of ancient Mesopotamia
  10. 14. Historic country house in Wigan (5,4)