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Monument record MDR11557 - Barrow, east of Derby Lane, Monyash

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Full Description

SK 1617 6457. One Ash long barrow. This long barrow measures nineteen and half metres in length, nine and half metres in breadth and 0.3 metres in height. It is located on the end of a ridgetop with good visibility to Arbor Low and east to Cales Farm within one kilometre and good everywhere within five kilometres. It is a low ploughed down mound that may be a small long barrow, or mine heaps. Myers and Thomas opened a small test pit on the mound in 1987 as part of a series investigating a lithic scatter. The surface of the mound had bones. (1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: Barnatt, J. 1989. The Peak District Barrow Survey (updated 1994). Site 8.40.

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Location

Grid reference SK 16170 64570 (point)
Civil Parish MONYASH, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Nov 11 2013 4:58PM

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