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Re: Ring Cairn/Stone Circle on Eyam Moor
Jan 13, 2013, 19:49
tiompan wrote:
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. "


The [ring]cairn you're pointing to is at SK2254 7864, like tiompan says it's mentioned on pastscape and it's on OS maps, pastcape also says "Several tumuli on Eyam Moor were opened 1827 and 1828 when urns
and burnt bones were found" the pit in the middle looks like this was one of the opened ones, it looks like a mini wetwithens from above doesn't it, it looks worth a visit [if you can get to it].

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