More information : (Group centred SE 942926) Tumuli (NR). (1) [One of] Group of three Bronze Age barrows on Broxa Moor excavated by W H Lamplough and J R Lidster in 1949. ('A'-SE 94239265). No.2. Diameter 36ft. Height 2 1/2ft. This was also a stone cairn erected on a clay platform. Although the cairn was not overlaid by clay, as in No. 1, a ring of stones, covered by a collar of clay, surrounded a small central pit which contained a cremation and parts of an urn with an overhanging rim. Another cremation was situated near the edge of the pit. Longworth's collared urn (Corpus 1096). Mr Lamplough pointed out that the clay used in the construction of this group of barrows had been brought some considerable distance from the valley, since none was local to their immediate vicinity. Archival material with W H Lamplough. (RCHM Excav Index PRN Nos 11228 and 11230-1). (2-6) As described. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (7) Broxa Moor Round Cairns. Three round cairns; all in Forestry Commission area and their interiors partly dug out. (A) SE 94139465 (sic). 10m in diameter and 90cms high. Hollow from old excavation over centre about 4m diameter and 50cms deep. 1005/a. Site visits and descriptions by A.L. Pacitto (Field Monuments Warden) 22.8.86. (8)
SE 943 926 etc Broxa Moor round cairns. Scheduled No NY/1005. (9)
Corpus entries: Full details of finds. (10)
A round barrow, one of a group situated on a ridge between Hard Dale Gill and the Derwent Valley, towards the western edge of Broxa Forest. The barrow consists of an earth and stone mound measuring 12 metres in diameter and up to 1 metre high. There is a hollow in the centre, caused by a partial excavation carried out in 1949. This uncovered two cremations and revealed the barrow to have been constructed as a mound of stone on a clay platform, sealed by a clay dome. Scheduled. (11)
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