Lean Low is very similar to Aleck Low in being heavily cratered. But the barrow itself is not the reason to come up here, the view across the A515 to Gib Hill and Arbor Low is worth the short steep climb.
Excavated by Bateman on two occasions, 1843 and 1847. During which he unearthed the primary burial, a crouched skeleton, on the old ground surface in the centre of the barrow. A later burial was also found higher up in the mound, the human remains here contained within a cist.
B. Marsden also partially explored the mound in the early 1970's; he too found a burial on the old ground surface, as well as pieces of human and animal bones and a number of flint artefacts.
info:
J.Barnatt's & J. Collis' "Barrow Corpus"
B.Marsden 'The Burial Mounds of Derbys'
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