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Gautries Hill

Round Barrow(s)

Miscellaneous

Dated to the Bronze Age, the barrow was excavated in the 1870's by Pennington.
Two limestone cists were discovered, containing a number of flints and a bone pin.
Human and animal bones, more flints and pottery shards were also found within the mound.

info:
J.Barnatt's & J. Collis' "Barrow Corpus"
B Marsden's "The Burial Mounds of Derbyshire"
stubob Posted by stubob
9th January 2005ce
Edited 23rd March 2005ce

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