In the year 1795, two kistvaens, or British sepulchres, were discovered by Major Rooke, on opening a large tumulus upon Fin-cop, about two miles north-west from Ashford.

In one of these was a skeleton, with the face downwards, having a piece of the black Derbyshire marble, two feet long, nine inches wide, and six inches thick, lying on the skull; under the head were two arrow-heads of flint..

[also] a small, flat, circular stone, which had a thin body of stucco on both sides; the top, which was of a yellowish colour, had apparently been varnished.