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| The two concessionary footpaths are due to close in November 2011. |
Posted by stubob24th September 2010ce |
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Minninglow can now be accessed by a concessionary footpath. One access point is at SK205-575 on the High Peak Trail and the other is at SK208-569 on Gallowlow Lane. |
Posted by Stormbringer 28th December 2008ce |
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Agreed with what everyone says! Access seems shady -but we walked right up, keeping out of sight of the farm - all a bit *Frodo in Mordor* lol... This is the place that you can see from all around - stand on the King's Mound at Arbor Low facing out and you see Minning low a little to your right - a tall hill with a crown of beech trees. Park in the car park and follow the track - then over the fence and up the hill! Amusingly, we got tothe top and clambered over the fence, only to get inside and see that it has an open gate! Aya! It's a very special place - enclosed by shrubs and a fence, it has a totally different feel to many of the more exposed places - no horizon, you are totally inside it. Some of the burial chambers are exposed, and you can lie inside if you want! But, they aren't very long! The place seems to mess with time a little bit - a bit *Picnic at Hanging Rock* if you get my meaning! Very isolated in a way - not a big tourist place - I figure you could spend to or three days there undisturbed! Don't know about a fire - maybe, if you were careful, and coverd it back up - but it's such a small area really that a fire would damage the look of the place. More of a wrap up warm thing. But I figure you could camp there no problem. It's a place to spend some time - bring a picnic, do your thing - whatever you do - spend some time with the dead! Left this place feeling revitalised. If you're looking for it, on the path you see the farm to your right - go past that and when the farm is pretty much out of sight look up the big hill to where there are some very tall beech trees in a shrub-enclosed area at the crown of the hill - it's in there - so up the hill! X |
Posted by Xia 28th December 2006ce |
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I was still buzzing from Arbor Low when me and Stubob hit this site. Stu sorted out the access and we were away. It can't be a coincidence that this site and it's beautiful grove of Beeches can be seen from all over the area. This is an awsome place, full of wonder and dignity. I gotta big-up stubob for letting me in on this lovely spot. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo21st May 2003ce |
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2 cairns lie in the plantation at Minninglow a massive Neolithic and a smaller Bronze age one, both with exposed chambers. The Neolithic cairn is still big after much stone robbing, there are four visible chambers a couple with intact capstones, tho' some of the chambers have been infilled, after some dodgy digging unsettled the place. There may be another chamber still in the remaining mound. Minninglow can be from miles away, (Five Wells, Bamford Moor). Only when you're up close to it the hill looks pretty unremarkable. An excellent place, and no-one goes up there ...that might have something to do with dodgy access rights... But it's got to be seen. This is 'the' site of The Peak District. |
Posted by stubob 4th April 2002ce Edited 27th September 2003ce |
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For what is life? And what is life like? I do not know what Life is but Life is like yesterday at Minninglow where as I peered over the flank of the grassy kist-crowned hill I saw a circle of six unmapped Neolithic standing stones I had not realised were there. Gray in the vernal sun lay they, Dinantian limestone sarsens honed round by the howling hail of ages. Gray as the drystone dykes and ice-plucked slabs and quarry walls about me. Always curious about antique things I strode against the freezing wind to see them, and they raised their heads and skittered in alarm. James R Warren. Perditions Illusion. 2006. (http://www.jamesrwarren.com/perdita1.pdf) |
Posted by stubob 16th January 2008ce Edited 16th January 2008ce |
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Posted by fitzcoraldo 9th July 2007ce Edited 9th July 2007ce |
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Access to Minninglow has always been a bit of a shady area.... The information board at Minninglow car park reckons there is no public access up to the cairns. And there are no paths up there. But....the surrounding fields are all open pasture... So as long as you're polite and tell the farmer at Minninglow Grange what you're up to... |
Posted by stubob 21st December 2003ce Edited 22nd December 2003ce |
| "One large chambered cairn, at Minninglow on a high hilltop between Parwich and Elton, started life as a small mound with a chamber. It was later enveloped in a long cairn with at least four chambers entered from the sides. Later still it was enlarged again, to make it into a massive near-circular mound. There are four or five such “great barrows” in the region, each about 40m (131ft) across, which were probably the local equivalents of later Neolithic mounds such as Silbury Hill and Duggelby Howe (Yorks Wolds)."EH - Peak District John Barnatt and Ken Smith. |
Posted by BrigantesNation 22nd August 2003ce |
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Rockhurst (Long Barrow) — Miscellaneous |
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The long barrow comprises a low wedge-shaped mound measuring 33.5m along its east-west axis and varying between 14m wide at the east end and 10m wide at the west end. The height drops from east to west from c.0.7m to c.0.2m. The bowl barrow, which is located off the west end of the long barrow, is a roughly circular cairn with a diameter of 9.5m surviving to a height of c.0.2m. The surface of the cairn has been excavated or robbed of its stone but the old land surface in which burials will have been placed is still intact. There is no recorded excavation of the long barrow though it is possible that the bowl barrow was one of those on Brassington Moor excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1849. Info from NMR. |
Posted by stubob 8th October 2010ce |
Minning Low Round Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
 
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Posted by stubob 25th January 2006ce |
Minning Low Round Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) — Miscellaneous |
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Around 24 x 17m in diameter and getting on for 2m high. This barrow is impressive in its own right... But all the same it kinda struggles to get noticed with the exposed chambers of the huge Minning Low 30m away to the SE. Like its neighbour the barrow saw of long period of use and several phases of construction. Thomas Bateman dug the barrow in 1843 and 1849 and found that it was in fact two burial mounds, a secondary earthen barrow being built against an earlier stone cairn. Bateman found the cairn's cist holding the primary burial had already been disturbed. A second cremation was also found. The large earthen barrow too covered a cremation, as well as Flint knives, bone tools and burnt bronze knife or razor. Info on finds from: J.Barnatt's & J. Collis' "Barrow Corpus" B. Marden's "The Burial Mounds of Derbyshire" |
Posted by stubob 19th March 2005ce Edited 23rd March 2005ce |
Minning Low Round Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) — Images |
 
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Posted by stubob 19th March 2005ce |
Rockhurst (Long Barrow) — Fieldnotes |
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The longbarrow is around 35m in length and is situated in a field to the west of Minninglow. The actual barrow is rather unimpressive and it struggles to get noticed above the long grass. As with Minninglow it lies on private land. |
Posted by stubob 5th February 2003ce |
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