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Looking southwest along the mound.

The long barrow from the northwest.

Looking northeast along the mound.

The southeastern flank. The stones in the foreground are the remains of the drystone wall that used to surround the monument.

The long barrow from the northeast.

The nearest we got to the barrow, at this point I was being shouted at to leave the open hill as the thunderstorm was practically on top of us – the stone circle will have to wait for another day!

Burton Bole round barrow, covered in heather and surrounded by shin-deep tussocky vegetation.

Shatton Edge from the southwest. Burton Bole round barrow is near the highest point, set a bit back from the edge. Smelting Hill stone circle is over to the right, somewhere.

From below to the southeast, towards the end of a lovely walk from Hayfield to Castleton.

The excellent high level view of the ramparts from the eastern end of the Rushup Edge/Lord’s Seat ridge.

Seen from Lord’s Seat round barrow.

The barrow from the east.

The terrific view east from the barrow.

The flattened top of the barrow.

Despite the erosion, it’s a pretty well preserved monument.

The barrow was in the process of being fenced off to reduce erosion.

Approaching from the west. The barrow on the right, the Great Ridge stretching away to the left from Mam Tor in the centre.

Kinderlow centre skyline. Seen across the heathery moorland of Brown Knoll, to the SE.

The Kinderlow ridge is centre skyline. Seen from the top of South Head, to the SSW.

Kinderlow with cairn is the ridge rising over on the right. Kinder Scout to the left. From the windy and exposed summit of Mount Famine, across the River Sett valley to the southwest.

Fin Cop is the flat-topped hill, top left. From Monsal Head.

The southern rampart, from the south where the ground drops rapidly.

The southern rampart.

Looking southwest from the fort, down to the River Wye.

Disturbed ground surface around the highest part of the fort. The rampart can be seen in the middle distance, running across the picture.

Looking down on Monsal Dale from the northern edge of the fort.

The northern end of the ramparts.

Looking west towards Chelmorton Low, which has another round barrow on top of it.

The eastern chamber, looking towards the prominent Priestcliffe Low, which has a round barrow on top of it.

The overgrown western chamber, with the eastern behind.

The two chambers, looking northeast.

Approaching from the west.

Landscape context from the west. The tomb is behind the trees.

General view of the mound.

The two largest slabs, forming the southeastern end of the pit.

Looking northwest-ish along the pit.

Showing the smaller slabs on edge on either side of the pit.

Looking south-ish across the pit with the slabs.

The eastern ramparts, the one part of the earthwork that survives to any height.

Looking across the site from the west. The western rampart would be in the immediate foreground, but it would take a real eye of faith to see anything of it.

Looking across the site from the southeast. The course of the rampart is just visible as a lighter green line.

The low line of the southeastern rampart runs across the picture, parallel with the fence, but is very ploughed down.

Western ramparts.

The southwestern side, where only the inner rampart remains, the outer rampart ending on the right of the shot.

The line of the destroyed southern ramparts next to the river.

Outer rampart and inner ditch towards the south of the fort, where the diversion of the River Stiffkey destroyed the earthworks.