John Barnatt (1996) from the Peak District Archaeology Service however believes that the account relates to a different monument but I've included it here for completeness. Some sources quote an interesting account by John Wilson later recorded by Thomas Bateman which describes the finding of an urn within a cairn on Eyam Moor in June 1759 by some workmen taking stone for nearby road making. The close proximity of the cairn to Wet Withens means it is mentioned by several of the same antiquarian sources as the circle, albeit sometimes only briefly. Interestingly, in recent years a possible single cup marked rock was discovered towards the centre of the cairn. Metres by 18 metres and up to about a metre in height aligned roughly southwest to northeast. Quarrying means that what remains at the site today is a tumbled mess of stones measuring about 28 Whatever it was, unrecorded excavations, stone robbing and possible damage caused by nearby It is more probable however that the cairn was a later addition or adjunct to the pre-existing stone circle. Another possibility is that the mound may have its origins as a Neolithic long cairn which would then pre-date the circle of Wet Withens itself, with the the burial of the urn being a later re-use of the site. Other sources suggest the monument may have been two or three smaller cairns that were either enlarged and linked together in prehistory (see the triple cairn at Raven Tor) or by more recent disturbance.
nothing, however, has been found recently except the urn, some arrow-heads, axes, and other implements of war.' The finds suggest an early to middle Bronze Age date (at least for the finds if not the cairn) and if Wood was correct then it would have been a truly massive mound, although the height he gives of c10 metres would seem to be rather unlikely. Little charcoal with which the body had been burned. Many years ago, an unbaked urn was found, containingĪshes, bones, an arrow-head of flint, and a In the form of a cone, ten or twelve yards (9-11 m) high, when perfect and was composed wholly of
Twenty-five to thirty yards (23-27 m) in diameter. Most interesting British barrows in the Peak ofĭerbyshire. William Wood writing about the monuments on Eyam Moor in the mid 19th century says - ' there was, until some years back, one of the A few paces to the north of Wet Withens stone circle is a large and badly mutilated cairn whose original purpose and form remains unclear.Īntiquarian records suggest that it may have originally been a large oval or round cairn.
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