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Round Barrow(s)
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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'
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Posted by stubob
22nd September 2004ce
Edited 13th February 2005ce
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