Raventor Triple Cairns
The Raventor Triple Cairns are on the edge of Beeley Moor at Bakewell, south of Chatsworth, overlooking the valleys of Beeley Brook and the River Wye and Derwent , in Derbyshire , England .
All three closely adjacent Bronze Age cairns are made of large stones and set with curb stones about 0.5 meter high. The central cairn of the roughly west-east oriented row has a double curb ring. The curbs on the northern edge of the circles, each measuring around seven meters, are megalithic. During the excavation in the middle of the 20th century, stone boxes with bones and ceramics were found in the central and western Cairn .
About eight meters from the triple cairn is a rectangular box-like stone enclosure with a stone pouring inside. Another well-preserved, rectangular example about one meter long is in a cairn about 300 meters south, while others are north of Raven Tor at Hob Hurst's House and near the four-post stone circle on Gibbet Moor (Galgenmoor ) lie.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 41.3 " N , 1 ° 34 ′ 26.1" W.