Curbar Edge Barrow

You are standing by the burial mound of someone who lived around 3,500 years ago in the Bronze Age. Although partially excavated in 1913, the surviving remains are an important archaeological site and we have placed the low fences around the mound to protect it. Please respect this final resting place of someone who must have been very special in their community.

In 1913 this burial mound (archaeologically known as a barrow) was partially excavated by the Duke of Rutland, and his gamekeeper Mr Peat, revealing a gritstone cist containing cremation remains, fragments of a pottery food vessel, a broken bronze knife and a flint scraper. As the perimeter of the mound wasn’t disturbed, significantly intact archaeological features are likely to survive, and future scientific techniques may yet reveal more about the person buried here.

A little way to the north of the mound lies a system of fields and enclosures demarcated by low earthworks, which have also been dated to the Bronze Age.