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Monument record MDR7504 - Round cairn, Harland Edge, Beeley

Type and Period (1)

  • ? (gritstone, Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Protected Status/Designation

Full Description

Roughly circular gritstone cairn measuring 4.5m wide and 0.5m high. Scheduled. (1) This mound is made up of earth and stones. It measures 5.5m across and is 0.3m high. Its location high on Harland Edge, in association with further small cairns and barrows suggests it could be a Bronze Age funerary structure. (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1994. Scheduling Notification. 23329. Cat. No.: 359.
  • <2> Unpublished document: Barnatt, J (PDNPA). 1998. The Chatsworth Estate Historic Landscape Survey, Chatsworth Moorlands: Archaeological Survey 1997-8. p 106, Feature 18.23.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 2940 6847 (15m by 15m) (Centre)
Civil Parish BEELEY, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • EDR3856

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Record last edited

Jun 8 2015 11:00AM

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