There's a fair bit of gate climbing involved to get to this barrow from the path that crosses the now improved Burton Moor.
Crossed by a stone wall the barrow is around 13m diameter and a little over 1m high. It looks to have been disturbed more than likely from being robbed of its stone for the walls around here.
Little to get enthused about; however if you find yourself in the area here and the nearby Grind Low are worth checking out.
Thomas Bateman excavated here in the late 1840's, discovering three crouched burials in a rock cut grave with flints and a jet necklace accompanying them. The burials in turn were coverd by stones, on the top of these stones were a cremation and animal bones.
A later Anglian burial was also discovered.
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