Green Low

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Ring Cairn

Green Low , on the southern slopes of a hill north-east of Chapel-en-le-Frith, in Derbyshire , England , is the location of two well-preserved Bronze Age ring cairns . Green Low is a megalithic complex that belongs to the “Derbyshire chamber tombs” (like Five Wells , Minninglow and the ruined Harborough Rocks).

A low wall about 2.5 meters wide, made of stones and rubble overgrown with grass, encloses an oval area of ​​20 to 22 meters. In the middle is a slightly raised platform about six meters in diameter. These are the remains of a somewhat later Cairns that WJ Andrew dug up in the 1920s, where he found a well-contained collar urn and an incense bowl. It may be that the cairn's current flattened shape is the result of its excavation.

The second, smaller Ringcairn, only six meters in diameter, is about 250 meters away in the southeast, on the other side of a stream. Its wall only rises 30 centimeters above the green. It is likely that the two monuments are contemporary and part of an ensemble.

context

Ring Cairns (sometimes also correctly referred to as "Ring Bank Enclosure") are round, low (maximum 0.5 meters high) but sometimes several meters wide wall structures, 8 to 22 meters in diameter, made of stones, rubble and earth were originally empty in the middle. In some cases the center was later used for a cairn (at the Hound Tor with a stone box ). The low structure of the Cairns is not always recognizable without excavations.

literature

  • BM Marsden: The re-excavation of Green Low - a Bronze Age round barrow on Alsop Moor, Derbyshire . In: Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Derbyshire Archaeological Society, 2016 pp. 082-088

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Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 37.5 "  N , 1 ° 52 ′ 31"  W.