Crow Chin North

Nearest town:
Sheffield (14km ENE)
OS reference:
SK224856
OS sheet:
110
Latitude:
53° 21' 59.19 N
Longitude:
1° 39' 47.99 W
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Image of Crow Chin North (Cairn(s)) by stubob

10/11. The larger stones are the remains of the dismantled cist, now being turned into a small walkers cairn.

stubob
stubob Oct 6, 2011
Image of Crow Chin North (Cairn(s)) by stubob

10/11. The stones in the centre of the photo are the remains of the dismantled cist.

stubob
stubob Oct 6, 2011

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Crow Chin North

stubob
stubob Oct 6, 2011

Parking at Dennis Knoll the cairn is about three quarters of a mile away on the top of Stanage Edge. The first half mile is all up hill with a final rocky scramble up to the Edge proper.
I’d left Matlock bathing in the sun under clear blue skies, but here only 20miles North, the wind howled up along Stanage Edge blowing in rain and hail storms every few minutes.

The north cairn at Crow Chin is around 20m in diameter and ringed by a gritstone kerb. Several smaller cairns from the excavation lie beyond its rim on the north side. And the stones of the dismantled cist within the cairn circumference to the south.

On a clearer day the views out over Win Hill, Lose Hill and Crook Hill would be superb.

SK22469 85614.

Miscellaneous

Crow Chin North
Cairn(s)
stubob
stubob Aug 16, 2012

Excavation of the cairn has revealed artefacts, indicating that the structure was a Bronze Age funerary monument, but residual worked stone material, incorporated into the mound, indicates that the immediate area was also occupied during the earlier Mesolithic period.

From NMR.

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