Green Low

Nearest town:
Wirksworth (7km ESE)
OS reference:
SK232580
OS sheet:
119
Latitude:
53° 7' 5.86 N
Longitude:
1° 39' 11.95 W
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Images

Image of Green Low (Burial Chamber) by thesweetcheat

Looking into the southern chamber (or passage) from the forecourt, where the entrance portal would have been.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.9.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 23, 2021
Image of Green Low (Burial Chamber) by thesweetcheat

Looking along the curving line of the forecourt kerbstones.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.9.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 23, 2021
Image of Green Low (Burial Chamber) by thesweetcheat

General view of the impressive monument from the northwest.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.9.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 23, 2021
Image of Green Low (Burial Chamber) by stubob

Axe? Came across this several years ago in the field just over the wall from the grave.

stubob
stubob Oct 25, 2012
Image of Green Low (Burial Chamber) by Emma A

Looking from the back of Green Low passage grave through the entrance aligned directly with Harboro’ Rocks (the pointy peak in the background).

Image credit: Emma Alsop
Emma A
Emma A Mar 19, 2012
Image of Green Low (Burial Chamber) by GLADMAN

Despite the ‘quarry views’, a nice little site to spend a few quiet hours......

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 9, 2010

Articles

Green Low

Emma A
Emma A Mar 19, 2012

I was quite awestruck by this place – I wasn’t expecting it to be so spectacular! I thought it’d be another grassy bump, but it’s like a mini Nympsfield (in Gloucestershire) with fewer people and better views. Possibly my enthusiasm is heightened by the fact that this is the only ancient site I have ever reached entirely on foot, so it felt like a proper adventure. (I like adventures!)

The horned forecourt is still visible and the entrance is aligned dead straight with the distinctive peak of Harboro’ Rocks – surely this can’t be a coincidence? Other sites which can be seen from the barrow or very near it include the edge containing the Bonsall Lane rock shelter, Aleck Low and Minninglow (surprise surprise). There are probably loads more too which I just don’t know of/recognise from a distance.

I did wonder about the stone with the hole in it which is part of the separation between passage and chamber. Was it chosen on purpose, maybe to let the spirits out? I don’t usually go in for spirits or ritual or lands of the living and dead etc, so maybe they chose it purely because it’s interesting and the right shape.

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postman
postman Sep 24, 2011

There is no where good and nearby to park, I all but dumped it in the driveway to the hideous quarry to the northeast on the A5012.
I havent been here since before my digital changeover, but because I cant be bothered scanning old pictures I havent posted to a lot of places I have been to.
An equinox was all I needed to get me back here, there is no special alignments to any significant sunrise, closest is the winter solstice but even thats way off, perhaps its aligned on a pointy hilltop, but I wouldnt swear to it.
My lower extremities were soaked by the time I got to the chamber, flippin slug infested dewy grass, but a good postie shrugs off such things.
I even wandered to the top of the hill to check out the small barrow, it wasnt impressive, but it did have a direct line to Minning low, as do so many places in the southern Peak.
The sunrise only just peaked through a smidgen, a tiny gap at the bottom of a huge bank of cloud was all there was to let me know it was occuring right now, though predictably the rest of the sky was ok.
The D shaped mound faces just east of south, the passage is almost the same as the chamber, so much so that it looks to have no passage just a fore and aft chamber. The chamber has a big flat stone as one of its side stones, but I wondered whether it was actually a capstone or part of one, to get a better look I poked the camera through a hole and photographed the underneath to see if there was other stones that it rested on or if it is
just the big one, I came to no conclusions, if anyone else can say let us know.

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stubob
stubob Mar 23, 2002

Exposed passage and chamber of one of the ‘Peak’ passage graves.
The passage and the grave are both the same width, a curled horned forecourt is still visible( just ). The site is thought to have been robbed since the Romans arrived.

Green Low is on private ground, 50yds away from the footpath.
Great views...except the quarry.

Miscellaneous

Green Low
Burial Chamber
stubob
stubob Oct 25, 2012

The passage of the chamber is unmistakenly aligned to Harboro’ Rocks a short distance away....I have a hair brained theory that the builders of the mound were acknowledging a local historically important place....the Rocks are the site of another Neolithic chambered burial but the finds made around them, like the Hopton handaxe, takes Harboro’ back in human history to the Paleolithic.

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