Minninglow
Minninglow (or Minning Low) is a hill in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, located within the White Peak area at grid reference SK209573. Within the clump of trees crowning the hill are a Neolithic chambered tomb and two Bronze Age bowl barrows.
The chambered tomb (Derbyshire's largest) and barrows are a Scheduled Monument.[1] The chambered tomb comprises an oval cairn of 45 by 38 metres (148 by 125 ft) surviving to a height of 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) and containing two complete chambers made of limestone slabs, and at least three other incomplete chambers. The tomb was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1843 and 1851 and was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the most impressive of Derbyshire's surviving prehistoric burials".[2] The barrow is considered to be a multi-period site, the oldest chamber dating from the Early Neolithic period but with other finds indicating use in the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, and also the Roman period. The two bowl barrows, also excavated by Bateman, date from the Bronze Age and also show signs of Roman disturbance.[1]
Although it is within 200 metres (660 ft) of the High Peak Trail between Parwich and Longcliffe, there is no public right of way to the site. Since 31 January 2007, however, concessionary access has been granted by the landowner,[citation needed] allowing the public to walk to and explore the site. The concessionary path from the High Peak Trail is signposted with a wooden sign similar to a public footpath sign and there are wooden markers on the route to the barrow.
About one kilometre northwest of Minninglow hill is the massive Minninglow Embankment on the former Cromford and High Peak Railway, the trackbed of which now forms the High Peak Trail. This Grade-II-listed structure, constructed from local limestone and earth in the 1820s,[3] is a pre-Victorian example of civil engineering on the grand scale. There is access from the car park and picnic site about 200 metres (660 ft) further along the High Peak Trail at grid reference SK194581.
References
- ^ a b Historic England. "A chambered tomb and two bowl barrows on Minning Low (1009102)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1978). The Buildings of England: Derbyshire. Revised by Elizabeth Williamson. Yale University Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-14-071008-6.
- ^ Historic England. "Minninglow embankment and bridge, High Peak Trail (Grade II) (1109348)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
External links
- Photos and commentary relating to the Neolithic site at The Modern Antiquarian.com
- v
- t
- e
- Black Hill
- The Cloud
- Gun
- Kinder Scout
- Shining Tor
- Abney Low
- Aleck Low
- Allman Well Hill
- Alport Height
- Axe Edge Moor
- Back Tor
- Beeley Moor
- Big Moor
- Birchen Edge
- Blacka Moor
- Black Chew Head
- Black Edge
- Blake Low
- Blakelow Hill
- Bleaklow
- Bole Hill
- Bolehill
- Bosley Minn
- Britland Edge Hill
- Brittain's Plantation
- Brown Knoll
- Bunster Hill
- Burbage Edge
- Burton Bole End
- Calver Peak
- Cheeks Hill
- Chinley Churn
- Chrome Hill
- The Cloud
- Combs Moss
- Corbar Hill
- Croker Hill
- Crook Hill
- Dead Edge End
- Derwent Edge
- Durham Edge
- Eccles Pike
- Ecton Hill
- Eldon Hill
- Emlin
- Eyam Moor - Sir William Hill
- Featherbed Moss
- Featherbed Top
- Fin Cop
- Froggatt Edge
- Gardom's Edge
- Gautries Hill
- Gibraltar Rocks
- Gratton Hill
- Great Ridge
- Grindslow Knoll
- Grin Low
- Gun
- Harborough Rocks
- Hare Edge Hill
- Harridge Pike
- Hartcliff Hill
- Haven Hill
- Hawks Low
- The Height
- Heights of Abraham
- Higger Tor
- High Edge
- High Field
- High Low
- Hollins Hill
- High Neb
- High Wheeldon
- Higher Shelf Stones
- Hollins Cross
- Houndkirk Hill
- Lantern Pike
- Lees Moor
- Longstone Moor
- Lord's Seat
- Lose Hill
- Lost Lad
- Low Moor
- Mam Tor
- Margery Hill
- Merryton Low
- Middleton Moor
- Minninglow Hill
- Mount Famine
- Nelson's Monument
- Ossoms Hill
- Parkhouse Hill
- Pike Low
- Pikenaze Hill
- The Roaches
- Rock Hall
- Rushup Edge
- Sheen Hill
- Shutlingsloe
- Slipper Low
- Snailsden Pike End
- Snels Low
- South Head
- Sponds Hill
- Stanage Edge
- Stanton Moor
- Tegg's Nose
- Thorpe Cloud
- Totley Moor
- Ughill Height
- Wardlow Hay Cop
- West Nab
- Wetton Hill
- Whaley Moor
- Wibben Hill
- Wild Bank
- Win Hill
- Windgather Rocks
- Wire Stone
- Wolfscote Hill
This Derbyshire location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e