Shaw Cairn
The Shaw Cairn (also called Shaw Farm Cairn or Mellor Moor) is a Bronze Age cairn and a Scheduled Monument on Cobden Edge south of Mellor in the Peak District in England , excavated by amateur archaeologists in 1976 and excavated since 2008.
The Reverend Marriott mentions the Cairn as early as 1800 in his book "Antiques near Shaw Farm". In 1976, cremations as well as pottery, tools made of flint and 10,000-year-old Mesolithic flint objects were found in the round hill surrounded by two rows of curb stones .
From 2008, the archaeologists Peter Noble and Bob Johnston excavated the burial mound and the surrounding area. Among the finds from a body burial of the so-called "Mellor Princess" in a stone box stands out a very rare, 4000 year old amber necklace . It is the first necklace of its type from the Early Bronze Age found in North West England. The necklace, consisting of dozen of pierced amber beads of various sizes, was a status symbol in this period.
More recently, the pottery from the earlier excavation has proven to be one of the most important collections of Early Bronze Age pottery in north west England.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '55.5 " N , 2 ° 1' 17.4" W.