Thomas Bateman partially excavated here in 1845, revealing a
rock-cut grave containing two skeletons, the eastern burial accompanied by burnt bones, the western one by a bronze flat axe and the jaw of a pig.
The barrow is dated to the Bronze Age.
info:
J.Barnatt’s ‘Barrow Copus‘
B.Marsden ‘The Burial Mounds of Derbys‘