" A monstrous parcel of gigantic rocks, seemingly pil'd one a top of another as in the wars of the gods"
William Stukeley.
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Further to Rhiannon's notes below the name Gib Hill refers to the local story of the barrow once being a gibbet site, although the name 'gib' is an olde english word for mound.
On the other hand the name Bunkers Hill, a name given to a number of features here in the Peak that includes hills, a plantation and a rock shelter, comes from the famous victory or is it defeat never too sure which and we did loose in the end, for the British in the American war of independence at Bunkers Hill.
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A Neolithic cursus monument visible as the cropmark traces of two parallel ditches circa 40 metres apart and running roughly south-south-west to east-north-east.
The site was first trenched in 1967, and further survey and excavation has occurred since the late 1980s. The cursus has been traced for a distance of at least 1560 metres, lying near the edge of the flood-plain of the Trent. Excavations in 1994-5 in advance of work on a bypass recovered Peterborough Ware sherds close to the bottom of the southern cursus ditch.
Charred organic remains were also present, from which radiocarbon dates are to be sought. The excavations also uncovered a causeway between 10.5 and 19 metres in length through the northern ditch. Within this casueway were a cluster of short linear features and a post hole, all presumably evidence for controlling access into the monument.
Another break in the northern ditch was shown to have been created to accommodate the course of a stream, which still runs through it. The 1994-5 excavations also confirmed that the 1969 excavations had in fact found a series of natural features which were mistakenly interpreted as representing the cursus ditches.
Information from: www.pastscape.org.uk
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Named after St Peter's in Rome; the domed top of the outcrop similar in shape to that of the church there.
A handaxe was discovered in the scree close-by and was perhaps associated with a barrow that is speculated to have been located in this area.
It was also the location of the Peak's last gibbeting in 1815.
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Measuring 16x16m and below 0.5m in height the barrow is dated to the Bronze Age.
Excavated in 1825 by William Bateman and in 1844 by son Thomas. Traces of burnt bone from a cremation were found along with later Anglian additions.
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The barrow measures 16x12m by 0.5m high, dated to the Bronze age,it is topped by the socketed base of a medieval cross.
Thomas Bateman excavated in 1846 discovering a central cist and the disturbed remains of three adult and two infant burials accompanied by burnt bones, pot
shards, flint tools, and parts of a shale bracelet and a necklace delicately made from jet and ivory.
Both the cist and the barrows kerb both noted by Bareman have been removed at some point.
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Sited above a gritstone outcrop this is a circular cairn about 13x13m and 1.75m in height.
Although disturbed there are no records of any excavations.
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23m by 20m and standing some 2m high and dated to the Bronze Age.
Excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1849 whose finds included a limestone cist containing a crouched skeleton interred with a
flint implement. On the cist's capstone was a smaller limestone cist which contained a collared urn containing a cremation burial along with a flint tool and a pot shard.
Bateman discovered a further 3 more similar burials within the barrow itself. A 5th burial consisited of a skeleton which had been
skeleton which had been either burned/defleshed, the long bones being laid parallel to one another whilst still fresh.
Other cremated human remains were found within the barrow including one in an urn.
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Explored between 1958-1963.
Finds included three pieces of worked flint, sherds of a Bronze Age collared urn, some sherds described as earlier in date, two worked antler fragments in association with some animal bones, a range of faunal remains including bear, reindeer, hare and cat, and a bone point of possible Upper Palaeolithic date.
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There are 4 supposed/possible/probable/likely barrows on Daisy Bank; at SK2060 5649, SK2060 5650, SK2057 5648 and SK2065 5670.
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T. Bateman excavated some of the barrow, more than likely heading straight for the primary burial, in 1857. He discovered a crouched burial on a bed of clay within a rock-cut grave, also found in the grave was a bone tool, several flints and an early bronze age decorated drinking vessel.
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Further to danieljackson's fieldnotes [removed]:-
The three stones referred to... while not modern... aren't prehistoric either unfortunately. The single stone in the photograph [removed] is a Medieval boundary marker known as the Moat Stone, while the pair of stones are more than likely old gateposts, there are wall foundation stones along this alignment which can be found after a bit of poking around. Again. that's not to say the stones are modern..... Gateham Grange, within very casual spitting distance of the stones, was part of the important Anglo-Saxon manor of Alstonefield, and the area was farmed at least from the 11th Century onwards.
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Major Hayman Rooke suggested that the name of Rootor came about in reference to the outcrops rocking stones, of which there once were reputedly 8 or 9.
The word 'roo' being an old Peak(/English?) word for something that moves "to and fro".
The village of Birchover was also once known by the same name, Rowtor/Rootor.
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Charles Knight in his book Old England (1845) wrote of Le Mont de la Ville as being:
"....a copy in miniature of such vast works as those of Stonehenge and Avebury...."
No mistake.....the passage grave is an excellent looking structure and it still is....errr....just that it's not actually on Jersey anymore.
Knight continues:
"This singular monument, which was found buried under the earth, was removed some fifty years ago [in 1785] by General Conway [to make way for his parade ground] to his seat near Henley, the stones being placed in his garden according to the original plan."
It's still there today in a private garden.
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William Camden (1551-1623) was one of the very first antiquarians, and a leading member of the Society of Antiquaries, established around 1588. In his book of 1586 'Britannia', written in Latin and translated and published a number of times the first in 1610, Camden describes man made and natural wonders.
"Near that bleak and dreary region, between Penrith and Kendal, called Shapfells, was, some thirty years ago, another remarkable Druidical monument; but upon the inclosure of the parish of Shap the stones were blown up by gunpowder, and were converted into rude fences." (see photos above).
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Ossum's Crag appears mainly to have been an occupational site, although human bone was recovered during excavation.
Flint and chert artefacts including blades and scrapers from the both the Mesolithic and Neolithic, prehistoric pottery, hearths and animal bones ranging from bison to vole.
Don Bramwell in his 1954 book 'Archaeology in the Peak District' suggested that a small raised ridge in the caves floor was used by flint knappers as an anvil stone.
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Nan Tor when excavated contained a wide array of prehistoric material including various parts of the human skeleton, Neolithic pottery, flint tools and arrowheads from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age, bone tools, animal bones, pendants and again later finds up until the Medieval period.
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Excavated by Thomas and Moore in 1962 the cave contained a disarticulated Neolithic burial along with a leaf-shaped arrowhead, a microlith, a thumb scraper and animal bones. The cave also contained later Romano-British artefacts.
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Of the two barrows on Chelmorton Low the SW barrow, at 24x21m diameter and some 1.7m in height, is the largest. Its partner 20m away (NE), being 18x17m and 1m high.
SW: Was first dug in the early 1780's, revealing a cist in the north-eastern edge of the mound,and containing the remains of perhaps five burials. Later excavations located a 20m diameter ring of limestone kerbing.
NE: Has been excavated by a number of people, amongst them T. Bateman in 1846 who recovered a number of flint artefacts and evidence of a cremation. Again work in the 1960's uncovered kerbstones, this time set out in a polygon shape
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Thomas Bateman made the steep climb up Narrowdale Hill in 1846.
Heading straight for the centre of the barrow he soon found the primary burial, a cremation contained within a rock cut grave along with an urn and flint. The capstone that covered the grave had a later cremation, also in an urn, placed on top.
A small cist of limestone slabs, holding a still later cremation, was also unearthed close to the barrows surface in the SE. This burial too contained worked pieces of flint and antler.
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