Swine Sty Cist.
Location-
Swine Sty, Big Moor, Baslow
O.S Grid Reference-
SK27451 75336.
Parking at Curbar Gap car park (pay & display) SK264746, head through the gate past the old guide stoop and head toward the gritstone escarpment of Swine Sty.
Both above and below the escarpment of broken slabs and boulders are the remains of Bronze Age hut circles and field boundaries that make up quite a large area, the first recognised habitational and agricultural of such in the Peak. The cist overlooks the Bar Brook in a uncleared stoney area by a large outcropping boulder (at the time of writing a wooden pole visible on the edge marks the approximate locale of the cist).
At one time thoughts were of the Bar Brook seperating the areas of everyday activity at Swine Sty from the ritual centre of Big Moor and the stone circles and numerous cairns found there. But recent surveys of the area have revealed burial cairns also within the settlement itself.
Swine Sty, Big Moor, Baslow
O.S Grid Reference-
SK27451 75336.
Parking at Curbar Gap car park (pay & display) SK264746, head through the gate past the old guide stoop and head toward the gritstone escarpment of Swine Sty.
Both above and below the escarpment of broken slabs and boulders are the remains of Bronze Age hut circles and field boundaries that make up quite a large area, the first recognised habitational and agricultural of such in the Peak. The cist overlooks the Bar Brook in a uncleared stoney area by a large outcropping boulder (at the time of writing a wooden pole visible on the edge marks the approximate locale of the cist).
At one time thoughts were of the Bar Brook seperating the areas of everyday activity at Swine Sty from the ritual centre of Big Moor and the stone circles and numerous cairns found there. But recent surveys of the area have revealed burial cairns also within the settlement itself.