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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are 4 supposed/possible/probable/likely barrows on Daisy Bank; at SK2060 5649, SK2060 5650, SK2057 5648 and SK2065 5670.

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.

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.

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.