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Monument Number 305504
Hob Uid: 305504
Location : Staffordshire Staffordshire Moorlands Warslow and Elkstones
Grid Ref : SK0908058360
Summary : Bowl barrow `Lid Low' (inhumation; bronze knife dagger; flint implements fd 1851)
More information : A barrow called Lid Low, near Warslow, was opened, 27th November 1851, by Sir John Harpur Crewe Bt and Sir Gardner Wilkinson. "They found a skeleton accompanied by a fine bronze dagger, 7 1/2" long with two rivets attached and two others separate, all lying near the head, besides two well formed spear heads of flint, the longest of which measures 2 3/4". (1) Similar information - "a bed of charcoal was found on which the body appeared to have been placed"; two flint javelin heads were found near it. (2) A bronze knife-dagger, 7 3/4" long and sharply pointed, found at Lett Low, near Warslow. (3) Lettlow: Flat, rivetted, bronze knife-dagger, length 7 3/4" three rivets, angular butt, associated with a contracted burial. In Sheffield Museum. (4) Included in register of Round Heeled Rivetted Daggers. (5) (SK 09085836). A much reduced bowl barrow known as Lid Low, or Little Low, pointed out by Mr G Grindon, the owner. 20m in diam. & 0.6m high. No visible ditch. Situated on the crest of a south-eastern spur, below Warslow and above the Manifold Valley. Under pasture. (6) Now reduced to a maximum height of 0.3m. Otherwise - no change. Published survey 1:2500 correct. (7) Not listed by Gunstone. He records Lidlow as unlocated. (8) (SK 09075836) Tumulus(NR) (9)

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Source details : `Ten Years Diggings' 1861 245 (T Bateman)
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Source details : JBAA 18 1862 42 (Sir J Gardner Wilkinson)
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Source details : ABI 1881 225 (Sir J Evans)
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Source details : Arch Camb 7th S 8 1928 166 (C Fox and W F Grimes)
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Source details : J Derbyshire A and H S 75 1955 111 The Transitional Period in the Peak, (M J Fowler)
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Source details : F2 DJC 29-OCT-74
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Source details : N Staffs JFS 5 1965 51 (A J H Gunstone)
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : OS 1:10 000 1976
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Staffordshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 359
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SK 05 NE 5
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1851-01-01
End Date : 1851-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1957-11-04
End Date : 1957-11-04

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1974-10-29
End Date : 1974-10-29

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 305504