The Tong Long Barrow.
Location-
Wheston, Derbyshire.
O.S Grid Reference-
SK1169 7698.
Listed as a possible example of a long barrow in Barnatt's and Collis' Barrow Corpus, the monument was rediscovered by its authors in the 1980's. Bray noted the site in 1775 as being "a white heap of stones.....where under earth and stone, quantities of human bones are found". No white heap of stones exists today, perhaps the nearby lime kiln has seen to this, in fact nothing much remains here at all just an area of low disturbed ground.
On Middle Hill, a local high spot, immediately to the west of the Tong evidence for a Neolithic settlement has been recorded. Consisting of several ring ditches and a vast range of flint and stone artefact finds including a number of polished cumbrian stone axes.
Turning south in Peak Forest, off the A623, towards Tunstead the barrows location can be seen, just, behind a field wall on the turning to Dale Head.
Wheston, Derbyshire.
O.S Grid Reference-
SK1169 7698.
Listed as a possible example of a long barrow in Barnatt's and Collis' Barrow Corpus, the monument was rediscovered by its authors in the 1980's. Bray noted the site in 1775 as being "a white heap of stones.....where under earth and stone, quantities of human bones are found". No white heap of stones exists today, perhaps the nearby lime kiln has seen to this, in fact nothing much remains here at all just an area of low disturbed ground.
On Middle Hill, a local high spot, immediately to the west of the Tong evidence for a Neolithic settlement has been recorded. Consisting of several ring ditches and a vast range of flint and stone artefact finds including a number of polished cumbrian stone axes.
Turning south in Peak Forest, off the A623, towards Tunstead the barrows location can be seen, just, behind a field wall on the turning to Dale Head.