<< Our Photo Pages >> Heath Wood, Ingleby - Artificial Mound in England in Derbyshire
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Multi-periodSite Name: Heath Wood, InglebyCountry: England County: Derbyshire Type: Artificial Mound
Map Ref: SK34222591
Latitude: 52.829634N Longitude: 1.493546W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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elad13 visited on 12th Nov 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
oldman visited on 14th Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 This site in the Heath Wood is also known as the Danish Barrow Cemetery. A footpath leads down to the wood from the Ingleby Road. Not so easy to see the barrows as it is now a wood rather than the original grassy slope. Anyway it is a pleasant walk through the wood.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5
Three fragments of swords have been recovered. Chests might have been placed on pyres: containing further treasures and artefacts, or to contain the dead themselves. The dead might have been transported some distance to reach this spot and in some style!
The mounds were created by digging ring-ditches and deploying material from the ditches in the construction of the mounds. Causeways of subsoil were left across the ditches, allowing single-file access from one or more directions to the mounds during both cremation and post-cremation practices. The mounds were thus originally platforms for cremation ceremonies, with instances of yellow sand used to create a layer upon which the pyre was built.
Surveyed and dug first in the 19th century (by Thomas Bateman in 1855), then again in the mid-20th century (Clarke and Fraser, 1941-49), the mounds were most recently investigated by Professor Julian D. Richards (University of York) between 1998 and 2000.
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https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/21/burnt-vikings-heath-wood-ingleby-derbyshire/
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