Perryfoot Long Barrow.
Location-
Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.
O.S Grid Reference-
SK109 811.
There's room to pull off the B6061 Castleton to Sparrowpit road roughly at the grid reference given above; look for the quarry slag heaps.
Orientated ENE-WSW this 50m long Neolithic long barrow is perhaps 25m at its widest point. And a little over 1m high at its eastern end where a later Bronze Age round barrow has been superimposed. Stone robbing pits scar the barrows length.
Bray excavated here in 1775 and recorded a large number of human bones. Pennington also dug here before the 1870's and found two contracted inhumations along with a range of animal bones including cow, sheep, pig, horse, red and roe deer and a dog. One pottery sherd of an unrecorded type was also recovered during his work.
Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.
O.S Grid Reference-
SK109 811.
There's room to pull off the B6061 Castleton to Sparrowpit road roughly at the grid reference given above; look for the quarry slag heaps.
Orientated ENE-WSW this 50m long Neolithic long barrow is perhaps 25m at its widest point. And a little over 1m high at its eastern end where a later Bronze Age round barrow has been superimposed. Stone robbing pits scar the barrows length.
Bray excavated here in 1775 and recorded a large number of human bones. Pennington also dug here before the 1870's and found two contracted inhumations along with a range of animal bones including cow, sheep, pig, horse, red and roe deer and a dog. One pottery sherd of an unrecorded type was also recovered during his work.
Above: Stone robbing pits on the barrows surface