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Cross Low

Cairn(s)

Miscellaneous

Cross Low was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1843.
He found a cist which held a crouched skeleton, the remains of two cremated children and a broken stone axe.
Five other burials were found within the mound, as well as burial urns and bone pins.

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

Measuring c.20m by 18m and possibly 1-2m high.
stubob Posted by stubob
2nd January 2005ce
Edited 16th February 2005ce

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