 Minninglow chamber 3 looking south. |
 Slabs of the damaged chamber 4. |
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This stands
to the southwest of chamber 3 on the western edge of the main body of
the mound and is quite badly damaged. Here we are looking at the north,
east and south slabs of the chamber, the missing western slabs can be
imagined to form a square or rectangular structure. A few stones of
the southern entrance (to the right of the picture - not shown) are
mostly buried in earth and grass while a couple of pieces of rock beyond
the edge of the mound could be part of a lost capstone.
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 Minninglow round barrow. |
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The
area enclosed by the modern wall at Minninglow also contains a later
Bronze
Age round
barrow located to the northwest of the main mound and Neolithic
chambers. Bateman's excavations in the mid 19th century showed that
it consisted of an earthen barrow built over a preexisting cairn
and cist.
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 Partly collapsed cist in the body of the round barrow. |
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This cist
formed part of the original structure - a cairn that was later overlaid
by an earthen barrow. The view is looking southeast with the main body
of the earlier Neolithic
mound that contains the four chambers shown in the pictures above and
on page 1 standing behind the line of
trees. It seems evident that this earlier structure and probably the
hill itself on which it stands were still regarded as significant in
the Bronze Age while later finds at Minninglow of a Roman date indicate
that the site's importance continued into the historic period.
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