Curbar Edge Round Cairn
Image credit: Andy Hemingway
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Looking southeast across the cist with Baslow Edge top right.
Looking northwest. Cist to centre with bank behind curving round to the right.
Looking over the edge of the cairn towards Baslow Edge on the left of picture
Northern bank of the cairn with cist to the left
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A robbed out round cairn on Curbar Edge, the stones in the foreground are the remains of a cist. The views from here are extensive, to Baslow Edge and the Eagle Stone to the south, and over Stoke Flat to Over Owler Tor, Mother Cap, Higger Tor, Stanage Edge, Banford Edge and Win Hill to the north.
There are numerous cairns in this area. Stoke Flat to the north has a stone circle and cairnfield, to the south is the Eagle Stone cemetery and Gardom’s Edge Neolithic enclosure and to the east is Big Moor, that includes the Barbrook circles and cairns, as well as Swine Sty field systems.
When this cairn was excavated (or more accurately destroyed) in 1913, by the Duke of Rutland, the cist was found to contain the remains of a cremation, a broken food vessel, a flint scraper and a broken bronze knife.
6th July 2003
Right on the top of the cliff, just above the path way is circle of small rocks about 20ft (i didn’t have a tape measure with me) from side to side. Although it is marked on the Explorer map of the area it is most visible with your back to the valley. There are quite a few cairns in the area but this is the most obvious