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Nettly Knowe

Cairn(s)

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Thomas Bateman dug this barrow in 1845; unearthing a skeleton, burnt flint artefacts, a bronze dagger and pieces of jet.

info:
J. Barnatt's "Barrow Corpus"
B Marsden's "The Burial Mounds of Derbyshire"

The barrow measures 20m-ish in diameter and is quite low. Visible from the Tissington Trail just south of the car park by the Alsop Moor Cottages.
stubob Posted by stubob
2nd January 2005ce
Edited 16th February 2005ce

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