06/04. (Crap photo). The cairn circle can be seen as a slight bump to the left of the trees.
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06/04. NY5555 1528. Large stone wall built over it, North of the Aspers Field stone.
06/04. NY552 159. Two uprooted stones of the avenue dumped wallside.
The question of whether anything had survived of the Little Round Table had been eating away at Fitz and me for yonks.
So when we discovered the NMR still listed the henge as having a small surviving section of the bank and ditch; we made it our first port of call.
Behind a wire fence, the remains of a 4m wide shallow ditch stretch for around 30m in length. And although it’s nothing too impressive, it was a buzz to finally get to see it.
From Lowther bridge head down the narrow road passed Lowther Lodge for approximately 40m. The earthwork can be seen in trees to the right of the road.
06/04. NY5653 1383. This stone was spotted by Fitz, close to a wallside to the west of Force Bridge.
06/04. Is this smaller stone a remainder of the ring cairn that the Cop Stone was once part of?
Fitz’s ‘megalithic jumble’ is a spot on description for this site.
Sitting on a mound/knoll, the two most visible sections of the kerbing do look to have once described a circle.
But the two small quarries that look to have disturbed quite large sections of the kerbing have made the whole thing a bit hard to grasp.
Well worth a look, with some great views out towards the Howgill Fells.
06/04. NY5661 1436. One of the stones mentioned on the NMR, in a field next to Green Farm.
06/04. Toppled Thunder Stone, the most northerly surviving stone in the alignment. The larger Thunder stone stands over by the farm.
06/04. No, really. This is the middle section of the surviving ditch at the Little Round Table.
Standing by the West Coast main line, near to Kitchenhill Bridge is this 10ft tall monster.
A big surprise for a stone that isn’t marked on the O.S map.
06/03. Another section of the battered defences at the Ash Cabin Flat hillfort.
05/04. Dating to around 1000BC, this (winking) Celtic head was found in a wall close to the Russet Well. Now displayed in the Castleton Centre.
04/04.
This overhanging rock, with a natural basin on it’s top, is known a Caer’s Chair.
Hayman Rooke visited Carl Wark in the 1780’s and in true Rooke fashion thought the site to be “a holy place or court of justice” connected to the Druids.
He suggests the ‘chair’ as being “a seat of justice, where the principal Druid sat”
A great looking, thick-set 1m high lump of a stone. It’s just over the hill from ‘The Dipping Stone’ which is marked on the Dark Peak O.S maps.
Like the nearby Murder Stone this stone also seems to stand at the head of two valleys.
Grid reference SK99839 81479.
03/04. The back-filled and blocked entrance. Entry is now via a metalled grate on the hillock above this entrance.
Time Team’s report on the discovery and excavation of the Carsington Pasture Cave.
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.
Slipper Low is visible as a clump of trees behind the farm of the same name......Whats left of the barrow is perhaps 10 x 9m in size.....it’s a messy site and ploughed out.
No real reason to leave the roadside and see it close up........
This barrow seems to go against the overall norm of a Peak Barrow by being perched right on the top of the highest point on Hollins Hill. Measuring 14 x 13m it stands about 1.5m high.
Obviously with the barrows dug out centre it’s been tampered with in the past, but I’ve not come across any records of excavations (edit see misc post).
With Chrome Hill, Parkhouse Hill and High Wheeldon all clearly visible from the barrow, it enjoys excellent views.
My guess is that Hollins Hill is in fact private property......
If you do go up there.... remember the spirit of the Kinder mass trespass of way back when don’t burn strongly in folks’ minds round these parts (more’s the pity) and especially not with the farmers.
03/04. Looking SE over the barrows dug out top over toward Chrome Hill.
04/03. Flint arrowhead(?).....Polo ‘ButterUp’ for scale.
Flint found on Crow Chin above the cairn of Moscar Moor. (Polo bottom of pocket).
I didn’t get this place at all......(it’s only a short steep climb up Bole Hill of several 100m’s from the stones of Strawberry Lea). But most of the remains (well kinda the most sorta visible) up there seem to be related to the old lead smelting workings...
Then again if your’e an hardcore hillfort fan then it’s possible I guess you might be able to find something...
Excellent views over Sheffield.....
