NGR: SK 0986 5496
NMR: SK 05 SE 1
SMR: 00290, 05029
SAM: -
DCR: 735
Excavation: S. Carrington, 1864-5.
Curation: Derby Museum; Stoke on Trent Museum; Sheffield Museum.
Burials: MNI: 1
Finds: Polished stone axe, Beaker and Bronze Age pottery, worked antler, bronze and amber artefacts, Romano-British artefacts.
Date: ? Neolithic (4)
14C: -
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