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Prior to an excavation by W Bateman in 1824 stone robbers uncovered a cist holding 2 skeletons and an urn. Bateman's dig unearthed another cist containing cremations, inhumations, urn fragments and dogs teeth. Later Romano coins were also found indicating its later use.
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Thomas Bateman may have excavated this barrow in 1860, although it's not confirmed, and found a contracted skeleton laying on a bed of burnt wood along with a flint arrowhead and a bronze awl.
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The second stone mentioned in previous misc. post has now been donated to Leek Museum and is on display.
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A Coppy Of Ye Boundaries Of Abney Lordship 12 Edward II (1317)
".....and so to ye slack att Highlow Head and so straight over the moore to a round hill of knowle called Berching Hatt from thence to Standing Stone."
I think Berching Hatt refers to the once large cairn at SK211 802, still on the parish boundary. Highlow Bank Cairn.
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2 large cairns at Crow Chin, just north of High Neb, on Stanage Edge. Built over an area that had been in use during the Mesolithic.
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This barrow and its close neighbour Chatsworth Park Barrow are relatively new discoveries. Barnatt & Collis do not mention them in the barrow corpus, neither does Marsden in his earlier work on Derbyshire barrows.
It wasn't until John Barnatt surveyed Chatsworth Park, and subsequently published a book on the estate, that they came to light.
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From Cheshire HER:-
Name: Standing stone at Ginclough 400m WSW Gin Clough Farm
SMR Number: 1606
Type of record: Monument
Map Sheet: SJ97NE
Parish: RAINOW, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE EAST
Summary
Large stone or glacial erratic by track to Cutlers Farm, Rainow Road. The stone is cut away on 2 sides to create a square face on the east side The stone stands just under a metre high on the south side of the road. Standing stones are large stones of Prehistoric date that are though to have been placed upright for some sort of ceremonial purpose. They are sometimes set in pairs and are often found near other prehistoric sites including burial grounds.
Monument Types
STANDING STONE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC? to 42 AD)
Protected Status
Scheduled Monument 25702: Standing Stone At Ginclough 400M Wsw Of Gin Clough Farm
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Pastscape also list this stone as a reused Bronze Age standing stone.
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It was here in 1844 when Thomas Bateman carried out an excavation of the barrow and discovered a crouched skeleton and the remains of a cremation with a bronze artefact in a collared urn.
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Excavated several times the first by Bateman in 184 he discovered a contracted inhumation in a rock cut grave accompanied by a beaker, he also uncovered a burial of a child. Subsequent digs unearthed a disturbed inhumation along with flints and an unspecified type of bead.
J.Barnatt's Barrow Corpus.
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Thmas Bateman did a partial excavation of the barrow in 1843 he discovered a cremation burial within a limestone cist and also a secondary inhumation. Both were accompanied by flint arrowheads and tools.
J. Barnatt's Barrow Corpus.
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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.
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Thomas Bateman excavated here twice in 1843 and 1849. Heading for his usual central mound position he found a crouched inhumation. And then six years later he located another crouched burial on the south side of the barrow accompanied by a bronze axe, flint and some kind of pottery vessel.
J. Barnatt's Barrow Corpus
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The barrow was excavated prior to Thomas Batemans visit in the mid 1840's but details of the finds are sketchy. Bateman's work here unearthed a primary female burial laying on a layer of burnt bones and covered by a limestone slab. Above this were the remains of five more burials and above these a crouched skeleton of a female accompanied by two jet necklaces contained within a cist. Again on top within another cist were two more crouched burials along with a food vessel. On top of this cist was a cremation burial.
A later Anglo-Saxon burial with a silver necklace was also recovered from the mound.
J.Barnatt's Barrow Corpus.
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Barnatt's Barrow Corpus says that Salt was the first to excavate here in 1895 finding a cist burial on the original ground surface along with animal bones and an animal cremation.
It was excavated several more times just before the end of the 19th Century where several more inhumations were discoverd along with flint artefacts, an antler tine, ochre, and later iron objects.
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John Barnatt's Barrow Corpus records that Thomas Bateman excavated here in 1851.....He found a skeleton central to the mound laid out on limestone flagstones along with a food vessel. Elsewhere in the mound were other human bones including those of a child and a number of flint tools.
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Bateman turned his attention to this 17x13m cairn in 1850 and found both cremations and inhumations but no dateable artefacts to go with them.
J. Barnatt's Barrow Corpus
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In 1962 after excavation the monument was repaired, since the American Army on tank manoeuvres, during the Second World War, threw down some of the facade stones and broke them.
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That mystic round of Druid fame,
Tardily sinking by its proper weight
Deep into patient earth, from whose smooth breast it came!
William Wordsworth The River Duddon (1820).
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The cave scenes in Ken Russel's film adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm were filmed in Thors Cave.
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A Furness Diary 1801-1807 published by The Countryman in 1958.......
"Friday, May 24th 1801. About 100yds to the West of Urswick Church in Furness in a field called Kirkflat, adjoining to the highway, stands a rough piece of unhewn limestone, which the Inhabitants of Urswick were accustomed to dress as a Figure of Priapus on Midsummer Day, besmearing it with Sheep Salve, Tar or Butter and covering it with rags of various Dyes, the Head ornamented with flowers."
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