Near Longnor. A long angular earthwork and barrow, the barrow is around 12x10m and about 1.5m high, with good sections of limestone kerbing.
The angular earthwork, shown on the O.S map, and thought by Bateman to be related to the barrow; as either protection or a running/chariot track for Bronze Age folk.....is in fact part of the medieval earthworks that surrounded the 'Grange' of Cronkston and Hurdlow Town.
Both the Batemans excavated here, William in 1825 and then his son Thomas in 1849.
Two crouched burials were recorded, one in a cist the other a rock cut grave. Among the other finds a human cremation and flint artefacts.
info:
J.Barnatt's & J. Collis' "Barrow Corpus"
B.Marsden 'The Burial Mounds of Derbys'
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