Cow Low Round Barrow(s) View all content for Cow Low

The barrow was excavated prior to Thomas Batemans visit in the mid 1840's but details of the finds are sketchy. Bateman's work here unearthed a primary female burial laying on a layer of burnt bones and covered by a limestone slab. Above this were the remains of five more burials and above these a crouched skeleton of a female accompanied by two jet necklaces contained within a cist. Again on top within another cist were two more crouched burials along with a food vessel. On top of this cist was a cremation burial. A later Anglo-Saxon burial with a silver necklace was also recovered from the mound. J.Barnatt's Barrow Corpus.

Posted by stubob 6th October 2010ce

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Cow Low, near Buxton (T. Bateman, 1846),~a ~pr ehistoric barrow, yielded the teeth of an Anglian secondary interment, presumably female, associated with a pair of gold pins, linked by a chain, and with the remains of a padlocked bronze-bound wooden box containing a necklace, a glass palm-cup, a decayed bone comb, a dog or fox tooth, and fragmentary iron and ivory objects. The pin-suite is of solid gold with inset flat garnets in the pin-heads, bordered with beaded gold wire	Posted by timlazisa 31st October 2015ce
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