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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bee LoweCountry: England County: Derbyshire Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Bakewell Nearest Village: Youlgreave
Map Ref: SK19166473 Landranger Map Number: 119
Latitude: 53.179331N Longitude: 1.714775W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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Round Cairn in Derbyshire
Bee Low is a large Bronze Age round cairn situated beside the minor road that links Parsley Hay and Bakewell, known locally as Back Lane. Unfortunately it has no formal public access.
Bee Low was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1843. Opening the Bateman found that it was ‘impossible to excavate it in a proper manner, owing to the trees growing upon the sides’. Instead of digging his usual tunnel from the edge of the mound inwards, he was forced to sink a hole down the centre of the mound where he discovered a few fragments of human bone along with a small flint arrowhead and half a dozen horse’s teeth and a cremation accompanied by a chevron patterned beaker.
Thomas was obviously not satisfied with this first afternoon’s work as he returned to the Low for a second investigation almost eight years later on the 3rd May when they discovered a number of other burials, one accompanied by a Beaker.
Pastscape monument no. 308642.
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