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Details of barrow on Pastscape Bronze Age round barrow, visible as an earthwork, believed to have been excavated in 1850. The feature is also visible as an earthwork on air photographs mapped as part of the Derbyshire and Peak District Aggregates Assessment Project. It is still extant on Google.Earth.com 06-SEP-2005 imagery (accessed on 21st September 2009). [SK 0673 7122] Tumulus [GT] Fox Low [T.I.]. (1) On 3.6.1850 Bateman examined `the remains on Foxlow Hill, near Buxton, where, in addition to some inconsiderable earthworks, there is the base of a large tumulus, the upper part of which had been removed to within a few inches of the rock'. Human teeth and rats bones were found. (2) This tumulus exists as shown. (3) A cairn with a maximum height of 1.7m. The feature is crossed by a broken dry stone wall and there is a sheepfold adjacent to the north-west face. (The above reference to "inconsiderable earthworks" is probably an allusion to the extensive quarrying which occupies Harpur Hill. No archaeological vestiges were noted). Cairn resurveyed at 1:1250. (4) No change. (5) SK 067712. Fox Low round cairn. Scheduled. (6) Additional reference. (7) A sub-circular cairn 16m by 14.5m and 1.5m in height, scheduled as a bowl barrow. (8) The bowl barrow is also visible as an earthwork on air photographs mapped as part of the Derbyshire and Peak District Aggregates Assessment Project. It is still extant on Google.Earth.com 06-SEP-2005 imagery (accessed on 21st September 2009). (9-10) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1955 ( 2) General reference Ten Years' Diggings... 1861 p.66 (T. Bateman) ( 3) General reference OS 513 (S.S. Reviser, 16.8.49) ( 4) Field Investigators Comments F1 FC 17-MAY-65 ( 5) Field Investigators Comments F2 FDC 05-APR-66 ( 6) General reference DOE (IAM) Anc Mons Eng 3 1978 23 ( 7) General reference Marsden BM 1977 Burial Mounds of Derbyshire 26 Priv Pub ( 8) General reference English Heritage, Scheduling Amendment, 14-APR-1992 ( 9) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR RAF/CPE/UK/2598 4169 16-APR-1948 (10) Oblique aerial photograph reference number NMR SK 0671/4 NMR 17213/13 21-JAN-1999

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