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Image of Parsley Hay (Round Cairn) by Rhiannon

This illustration of ‘Parselly Hay’ accompanies the article ‘The Grave Mounds of Derbyshire and their Contents’ by Llewellynn Jewitt, in ‘The Intellectual Observer’ 1868: you can read it on Google Books.

Image of Parsley Hay (Round Cairn) by Rhiannon

This illustration accompanies the article ‘The Grave Mounds of Derbyshire and their Contents’ by Llewellynn Jewitt, in ‘The Intellectual Observer’ 1868: you can read it on Google Books.

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Parsley Hay
Round Cairn

This barrow is nice enough.....excellent views across the A515 to Gib Hill half a Km away.
Overall the barrow/s measures around 23m in diameter and rises to a height of 1.5m. As Baza’s picture shows there are some visible limestone kerbstones, which form a 17m-diameter platform for the main cairn to stand on.
On the barrows SE and SW sides (?) are 2 smaller mounds, averaging 9m in diameter neither are above 50cm in height.

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Thomas Bateman excavated the part of the main barrow in the late 1840’s. His finds included a crouched skeleton held within a rock cut grave, accompanying the burial were flint tools and shards of a beaker. Flat limestone slabs covered the grave cut, and on these stones he found a second crouched burial, along with a stone axe and bronze dagger.

Excavation info:
J.Barnatt’s & J. Collis’ “Barrow Corpus”

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