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The new notice, announcing the sealing of the entrance.
Image credit: David Tickle
There were once three cairns here, dating back to around 1700BCE. The remaining cairn is about 6m tall and 20m accross.
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Walking West out along the ridge from the Mam Nick road, the path rises after just over 1km to the Lord's Seat barrow. Stick to the path on the crest of the ridge for the best views – Edale to your right, Mam Tor behind, Windy Knoll to your left and the barrow itself looming up ahead. Well worth the effort.
The view to the summit standing on the left side of the SW gate (SE if you read the signpost, but not according to a compass). The hillfort ramparts on the Edale side are visable to the left of the picture, rising to the summit trig point (fully paved – right on top of a burial mound), then imeadiately to the right of that is the remaining Bronze Age burial mound. The sunken path in the foreground leads through the gate itself, with the modern path to the far right of the picture.
As well as the remains of a prehistoric human at Windy Knoll Fissure, 19th century excavation turned up variety of animal skeletons; bison, bear, wolf, tiger and deer skeletons have been found.
The remains of the ore crushing circle with its gritstone wheel at Odin Mine. Mam Tor in the background.
Win Hill (left) from Hordron Edge, with Lose hill and Kinder Scout on the horizon.
Win Hill from Hordron Edge. Lose Hill is just visible through the haze to the right of the picture.
This huge stone stands just a field away from the Backhill of Drachlaw circle. Like those stones it has large veins of white quartz running through it, making a thick stripe around the bulk of the rock. Rather than being placed as an outlier to the neighbouring circle it is suggested that the Carlin Stone could itself have been the recumbent of a circle, although the sheer size makes this seem unlikely. There have, however, been Bronze age finds around the stone which would seem to back up the RSC idea.
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