More information : (SD 6469 1499) Tumulus (NR) (1)
A round cairn at Noon Hill. Partial excavation in 1958, and
again in 1963-64 (report pending) yielded six to seven cremations.
The primary, a multiple of three (man, woman and child) was under a
collapsed enlarged food vessel, inverted in a central cist,
accompanied by a calcined barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.
Flints associated with other burials also included barbed and
tanged arrowheads, a flint knife, and scrapers. Finds are in the
Bolton Museum. (2-3)
The cairn is about 18.0m in diameter, with a maximum height of
1.3m and mutilated by a central excavation. Three exposed boulders
in the SSE of the skirt are the remains of the kerb.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (4)
SD 6469 1498. Round cairn on Noon Hill. Scheduled RSM No 23708.
A slightly oval mound of earth and stones up to 1.3m high with max
dimensions of 21m N-S x 19m E-W. Three partially exposed gritstone
boulders on the S edge form part of the cairn's kerb. Limited
excavation of the cairn in 1958 and again in 1963/4 located the
primary cist burial of three individuals beneath a collapsed Food
Vessel. Three or four secondary cremations and a number of flints
including barbed and tanged arrowheads, scrapers and a knife were
also found. (5)
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