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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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In John Askew's Guide To Cockermouth of 1872 he notes that some forty years earlier a Fletcher Grave of Cockermouth described two concentric circles on this site, the inner twenty paces and the outer sixty of which most were removed when the land was enclosed.
An outlying stone was recorded in 1923, to the SW of the circle, but has since been removed.
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Measuring 9m by 8m and perhaps 1m in height. A partial excavation by Thomas Bateman in 1849 led to the discovery of a rock-cut grave containing three crouched skeletons.
A fourth skeleton buried with an iron spear head, points to its later re-use in the Anglian period.
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Excavated in 1909, finds included Bronze and Iron Age pottery, Roman pottery plus coins, brooches, iron implements, some bone objects, spindle whorls and whetstones. A, now lost, glass bead may have been Iron Age in date.
Three flints recovered, now in Buxton Museum, have been identified as being of Upper Palaeolithic date.
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Excavated between 1903 and 1912 by E.H. Mullins andD.A.E. Garrod, the cave is noted for its Later Upper Palaeolithic remains. It also produced Neolithic evidence in the form of a human burial and a small fragment of a childs skull.
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Noted for its Later Upper Palaeolithic "Creswellian" artefacts the cave also contained material from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman eras.
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A fissure cave2.5m wide and 1.5m high; leading
via a narrow passage to a chamber 4.5m long by 3m wide.
Partial excavations were carried out in the late 60's early 70's and revealed Roman artefacts and also material dating from the Later
Upper Palaeolithic, an antler from this level revealed a carbon date of 9830BP.
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The shelter is a 3m overhang, 2.5m above the present floor level and 6m wide.
During excavations carried out by G.F. White in the 1960's and 70's; Mesolithic, Neolithic and Roman material was recovered. The shelter also contained Later Upper Palaeolithic retouched tools.
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Doreen Valiente in her book 'An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present' reckons the name of Rudston is derived from the Old-Norse Hrodr-steinn meaning 'the famous stone'
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This small barrow perhaps 13m in diameter lies just off the Tissington Trail near the Stonepit Plantation. Car Park at SK156548.
Thomas Bateman was here in 1845 and upon digging the mound found a crouched skeleton accompanied by a bronze dagger.
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Marked on O.S maps as Crake Low this mound is suggested by Barnatt to be mining spoil, rather than the barrow described by Bateman in this area, in which he had found human bones.
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This cairn measures around 22m in diameter and survives to a height of around 1m.
T. Bateman excavated here in the mid 1840's finding a large cist central to the mound in which was a crouched skeleton. A smaller cist within the larger one was also uncovered containing a cremation. On top of these two features were two other skeletal burials, flints and an antler tine.
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Pastscapes information:
A rock overhang circa 8 metres deep with a maximum of 2 metres headroom in Bunker's Hill Wood, Beeley Moor. Discovered and partially excavated in 1957, more extensive excavation was undertaken in 1966. Artefacts recovered seem to comprise solely sherds of Bronze Age collared urns. No flint, stone or bone objects or remains were encountered, and no trace of a burial was identified in the area of the potsherds.
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"A 5,000-YEAR-OLD "excarnation platform", where the bodies of prehistoric humans were left to rot and be picked clean by predators, has been found in the Peak District."
In 1996 as the Long Rake quarrying on Longstone Moor was getting ever larger English Heritage were called in to excavate 2 barrows which, within weeks, were about to take a 150ft tumble onto the quarry floor below.
One of the barrows covered over an excarnation platform, only the 2nd to be identified in Britain. It was composed of a one to two feet high limestone semi-circular rubble wall which then enclosed a platform. An entrance with three standing stones was later closed using rubble and a Bronze Age burial placed within the platform itself.
Sad thing is nowt remains. The quarry got bigger and the thing disappeared.
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Excavated by Carrington in 1849 the barrow was found to contain a contracted inhumation accompanied by several leaf shaped arrowheads and other unspecified flints. The mound also contained a secondary cremation.
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For what is life? And what is life like? I do not know what Life is but Life is like yesterday at Minninglow where as I peered over the flank of the grassy kist-crowned hill I saw a circle of six unmapped Neolithic standing stones I had not realised were there. Gray in the vernal sun lay they, Dinantian limestone sarsens honed round by the howling hail of ages. Gray as the drystone dykes and ice-plucked slabs and quarry walls about me. Always curious about antique things I strode against the freezing wind to see them, and they raised their heads and skittered in alarm.
James R Warren.
Perditions Illusion. 2006.
(http://www.jamesrwarren.com/perdita1.pdf)
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From J D Sainter's "Scientific Rambles Round Macclesfield" 1878:
'At a short distance south of Rock Hall, there may be observed on the opposite slope of Hen Cloud a block of gritstone, which upon approaching it, is found to be resting or balanced, in the first place, upon a short edge of rock and then upon two upright and pointed stone pillars about eighteen inches in height, which will constitute a dolmen. At a few yards south of this stone there appears to be the remains of a stone circle, 20 feet in diameter.'
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From J D Sainters "Scientific Rambles Round Macclesfield" 1878:
'East of this sephulchral cell or monument, there stood six or eight upright stones or monoliths, from 8-10feet in height and six feet apart, which formed a circle 27 feet in diameter; and two other stones stood north by south within this circle, which may have been the remains of a cromlech or dolmen that had contained a burial by process of cremation, since the soil is reported black with charcoal ashes. Another stone stood six yards east from this circle, succeeded by one six yards beyond it......'
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Dolphin trainer for the MoD.
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