More information : (SD 80516646) Tumulus (OE)
(SD 80656618) Tumulus (OE) (Site of) (1)
A group of Bronze Age barrows is situated on the fell between
Stackhouse and Feizor above Giggleswick Scar. (2)
One, known as 'The Apron Full of Stones', was opened in the 18th
century containing a stone cist, a skeleton, scattered human bones,
an 'ivory' disc, and a tusk. (3-4)
These tumuli (resurveyed at 1:2500), comprise two of a group of
four. (See also SD 76 NE 10 & 11).
Both are the remains of cairns. The former at SD 80516647, is
severely denuded, and is now visible as a slight, turf-covered
platform 0.7m high.
The Apron Full of Stones, (formerly published as 'the site of
') has an average height of 1.4m; but is badly mutilated. An
unlined, central cavity, and the discarded cap-stone are now
the only evidence of a cist.
A few bones, together with polished stone axe, approximately 1ft
long, also reputedly recovered from this cairn, are housed in
the Pig-Yard Club Museum, Settle. The other recorded grave-goods
are now missing (a). (5)
A cairn cemetery north of Giggleswick Scar, at SD 805774, included
21 grass-covered mounds and a 'pond-barrow' 35ft in diameter.
A cairn close to the IA Settlement was excavated and found to
be 18ft in diameter and 3ft high. A cist robbed of its burial
yielded a flint knife, borer and flake. Sherds of three types
of pottery were found south of the cist, all coarse quartz gritted,
and a barbed and tanged arrowhead. (6)
The grid reference quoted in authority 6 is incorrect.
The cemetery is situated at SD 805664 (a). (7)
SD 8051 6647. Ring cairn NW of Reinsber Scar. Scheduled RSM No 24524.
(8)
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