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fitzcoraldo wrote:
There was a second phase of building on top of the original mound. Barnatt states "Near the surface of this mound a small stone chamber was found containing a 'food vessel'."
I guess this could have been the cist.
Almost certainly. In Rude Stone Monuments Fergusson says that the 'excavating' team were disappointed not to find eny remains after digging a tunnel to the centre from two sides at ground level. When the planks that held up the tunnels were removed the tunnels collapsed and a cist was discovered. It reads as if the cist fell into the tunnel.

In Barry Marsden's "Burial Mounds of Derbyshire" he quotes Thornhill's dig in 1812, where they found human hand bones, and that Normanshaw dug in the early 19thC and found a skull.

sam