Green Low Field Tumulus

Nearest town:
Ashbourne (9km SE)
OS reference:
SK151554
OS sheet:
119
Latitude:
53° 5' 42.77 N
Longitude:
1° 46' 28.13 W
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Image of Green Low Field Tumulus (Cairn(s)) by stubob

Some of the flint tools recovered from the barrow. Sheffield Weston Park Museum.

stubob
stubob Sep 6, 2011
Image of Green Low Field Tumulus (Cairn(s)) by TwentyTrees

Nothwithstanding the earlier fieldnotes this barrow deserves a visit – it is in a fine location and easily accessible from the Tissington Trail (a path passes very near). There is little to see but the position is important in relation to the large number of other barrows nearby: Liffs, Gratton, Narrowdale, Moat, Boars, etc etc.

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TwentyTrees Oct 2, 2006

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Green Low Field Tumulus

stubob
stubob Mar 18, 2004

The only reason the overgrown lump that is Green Low gets a mention anywhere..ever..Is because of the Beaker burial Bateman (who else) ripped out of the barrow in the mid 1840’s.
The (k)cist he uncovered contained a real haul of finds..with the inhumation....a flint dagger, a handful or more of flint tools and arrowheads, a food vessel/beaker/urn, bone tools and fools gold and a body of a child was also within the cist.
The barrow was opened again in the 1960’s...more flint tool finds were made as well as burials from the romano-British period...
(info:J.Barnatt’s “Barrow Corpus”
B. Marsden’s “The Burial Mounds of Derbyshire”)

You’re probably better off checking out what came out of the barrow..which is displayed in the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield, rather than visit the barrow itself.

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