Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow located on a hilltop at the south-eastern
end of Stanshope Pasture ridge. The site is that of a rocky knoll which has
been modified and added to and which now survives as an oval mound up to 2.3m
high with maximum dimensions of 16.5m by 14m. The barrow possesses steep sides
and has been disturbed on its southern side by a series of pits dug by
antiquarian investigators from the edge of the mound to the centre. These
limited investigations located two inhumations, 5 cremations, a cist, pottery,
flint and bone artefacts.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Despite limited antiquarian investigation of the monument's southern side the
bowl barrow south of Stanshope Pasture survives well. These investigations
located human and faunal remains together with pottery and flint artefacts and
further similar evidence of interments and grave goods will survive within the
barrow and upon the old land surface.

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Sources

Books and journals
Barnatt, J, The Peak District Barrow Survey (1989), (1989)
Bateman, , Ten Years Digging (1861), (1861), 142
Bateman, T, Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, (1849), 86
Other
Darvill,T., MPP Single Monument Class Description - Bowl Barrows, (1988)

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