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Crow Chin South (Cairn(s))

There are visible disturbances at the centre of the structure suggesting there may have been a very limited excavation.

From the NMR.

Crow Chin North (Cairn(s))

Excavation of the cairn has revealed artefacts, indicating that the structure was a Bronze Age funerary monument, but residual worked stone material, incorporated into the mound, indicates that the immediate area was also occupied during the earlier Mesolithic period.

From NMR.

Bee Low (Round Cairn)

Partial excavations carried out by Thomas Bateman in 1843 and 1851, and by Marsden in the late 1960s, have revealed the remains of eleven human burials of adults and children, most of which were crouched inhumations but some of which were cremations. The primary burial was a cremation laid on a flat stone at the centre of the mound adjacent to a barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. Several of the secondary burials were laid in rock-cut graves or cists formed of limestone slabs, one of which was
covered by a paved chert ceiling. In addition to the crouched skeleton, the latter grave contained a flint knife and a decorated clay drinking vessel.
This and other similar vessels assign the barrow to the Beaker period or Early Bronze Age, and this date is supported by other Bronze Age artefacts which, in addition to flint implements, include a number of Bronze pins. Also found, on
the old land surface beneath the barrow, was a Neolithic polished stone axe and a pointed arrowhead of a similar date. These earlier artefacts are likely to be residual remains contained in the material used to build the barrow.

Info from the NMR.

Calton Pastures (Round Barrow(s))

SK233685. Partially excavated by Bateman. He revealed a pit under the centre of the barrow containing lead ore.

SK236684. Possibly excavated by Major Rooke in the later half of 18th Century and later by Bateman who found it disturbed.
The mound contained a small cist with a food vessel and cremation interned within it.

SK239683. Possibly opened by Rooke.

SK241680. Possibly opened by Rooke and later Bateman.

Haddon Fields South (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Haddon Fields North (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Ramshorn Farm (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art)

The second stone mentioned in previous misc. post has now been donated to Leek Museum and is on display.

Highlow Bank Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir)

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.

Crow Chin (Cairn(s))

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.

Lindup Low (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Ginclough (Standing Stone / Menhir)

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.

Moot Low (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Slipper Low (Cairn(s))

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.

Green Low Barrow (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Rockhurst (Long Barrow)

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.

Borther Low (Round Barrow(s))

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

Cow Low (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Fairfield Low (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Castlegate Lane (Round Barrow(s))

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.

Putwell Hill (Round Cairn)

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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