Calton Round Barrow(s) View all content for Calton

A large bowl-shaped barrow North of Latham Hall to the South-East of the Staffordshire Moorlands village of Calton. It has been identified with 'Thorncliff' a barrow opened by Samuel Carrington in 1848. Carrington found a primary inhumation accompanied with a flint implement and a broken, rivetted bronze dagger. A secondary extended inhumation, probably of a much later date, was also found. ("Ten Years' Diggings.." Bateman, T. 1861. pp118-9.) A central pit on the mound marks where Carrington opened the barrow and there is evidence of a second excavation of the site from 1959 that made no further finds. The site was Scheduled (RSM No. 13578) on 4th June 1992. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=307557

Posted by BrownEdger 4th June 2012ce Edited 4th June 2012ce

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