|
|
 Log in |
Register
|
|
|
England
Eyam Moor BarrowCairn(s)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
0 discussions
Show map (inline Google Map)
|
|
|
Images (click to view fullsize) |
 Add an image |
|
Fieldnotes |
Add fieldnotes |
| Visited in September 2007 and Ministry of Works sign had been removed so can't be used as a waymarker to find the cairn and nearby Wet Withens. The cairn itself has been bashed about and it's difficult to figure out what it was meant to be. There is a suggestion that it may originally have been a pair of cairns that were either joined in antiquity or by more recent excavation/quarrying while another idea is that it could have been a long cairn. It measures about 28 metres by 18 metres. |
Posted by Chris Collyer22nd August 2008ce Edited 22nd August 2008ce |
|
Now reduced to little more than a big pile of scraggy rocks with a dip in the middle, the only clue to what-it-once-was is the big fuck-off Ministry of Works (who are they exactly?) rusty sign, erected rudely at its periphery. Despite its appalling condition, the cairn is impressive right on the edge of a ridge and with Wet Withens just metres away. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Six of the best with a wounded knee
|
Posted by Jane19th November 2003ce Edited 19th November 2003ce |
| This looks kind of bizarre to me, without the sign and a mind to look for this kind of thing you would believe that it was a few hundred miles of future stone wall. I wonder what is beneath it as it is very large |
Posted by daveyravey8th August 2003ce |
| Near the centre of the barrow is a well defined cup mark on a stone block. The stone is just out of the loose rocks of the cairn close to what could be the remains of a cist. |
Posted by stubob7th August 2003ce |
| Judging by what's left the barrow it must have been quite large at sometime. The barrow has a metal sign stuck into it, nasty as it is, it's about the only thing on the moor to direct you to the Wet Withens circle which is close by it. |
Posted by stubob 28th October 2002ce Edited 14th May 2003ce |
Top of page