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Monument record MDR2103 - Possible barrow, Ravenclife, Great Longstone

Type and Period (1)

  • ? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

SK 1750 6736: Ravencliffe, Dubious Barrow: Dimensions: diameter is 18m (20-30 paces), height is 1m (3ft). Irregular mound, partly destroyed for walling. (1). This amorphous feature is almost certainly a slight natural knoll, which has been quarried, leaving small rubble heaps which have been mistaken for a ruined barrow by Cooper. (2,3)

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Index: NDAT. 2129.
  • <2> Unpublished document: Barnatt, J. 1989. The Peak District Barrow Survey (updated 1994). Site 4A.
  • <3> Unpublished document: Ullathorne, A (PDNPA). 2003. Hall Farm, Wardlow, Great Longstone and Litton, Derbyshire, archaeological survey, 2003. p 7, Feature 18.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SK 175 735 (16m by 15m) (Centre)
Civil Parish GREAT LONGSTONE, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Jun 15 2015 2:23PM

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