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Re: Ring Cairn/Stone Circle on Eyam Moor
Jan 13, 2013, 19:27
Alastair Ross wrote:
Has anyone visited the site at +53° 18' 15.39", -1° 39' 47.29"/https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=53.304275,-1.663136&ll=53.304317,-1.662905&spn=0.002863,0.008256&num=1&t=h&z=18&iwloc=near

I haven't found any reference to it and was wondering whether it was worth a visit or not? I was up on Eyam Moor last weekend and I'm kicking myself for not spotting this before I went up.


Alastair this is the pastscape entry .
"A Bronze Age cairn located on a slight ridge of gently shelving land on Eyam Moor. The cairn measures 13.5 metres by 12.5 metres and stands about 0.5 metres high. This example of a funerary cairn is complete except for a small trench cut into its western side. Small quarry pits to its immediate north and east indicate that the trench was likely to have been for stone procurement rather than the result of antiquarian activity. The cairn is located in a relatively isolated position, away from the main prehistoric cairnfields of Eyam Moor. There are, however, several other cairns in this part of the Moor which also stand in relatively isolated positions and this small dispersed group is interpreted as a barrow cemetery. Scheduled. "
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