Monument record MDR11557 - Barrow, east of Derby Lane, Monyash
Type and Period (1)
- LONG BARROW ? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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> SDR2466 Unpublished document: Barnatt, J. 1989.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) |
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Civil Parish | MONYASH, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Nov 11 2013 4:58PM