Green Low (Aldwark)
Green Low is a Neolithic (3400-2400 BC) chamber tomb ( English chambered tomb ) north of Aldwark in Derbyshire in England .
The facility belonging to the "Derbyshire chamber tombs" (such as Five Wells , Minninglow and the destroyed Harborough Rocks) consists of the 0.9 to 1.2 m high remains of a cairn with a diameter of about 18.0 m with an exposed chamber of about 2.2 × 1.8 m and a straight passage about 3.0 m long, which starts from a horned forecourt at the southern end of the hill. The corridor was lined with dry masonry . The chamber and the corridor, bounded at the end by large limestone slabs , are the same width. Excavations in 1963–1964 have shown that the tomb was deliberately blocked, with the paved forecourt being filled with chunks of limestone. Roman pottery and coins would suggest that the tomb was looted as far back as Roman times.
Green Low Ringcairn (also called Bettfield Farm) is a ring cairn in Slackhall in Derbyshire.
literature
- Glyn Daniel : The Prehistoric Chambered Tombs of England and Wales, 1950, Cambridge University Press.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′ 8.7 ″ N , 1 ° 39 ′ 30 ″ W.