A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



SCALE OF FEET 

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ft&rrop 



Moss 



HARROP Moss. 



pathway, that shows its age from its worn, sunken condition, winds its 

 steep way down to the valley beneath from the almost precipitous height 

 of the south-west corner of the camp. 



There are two small tumuli at the south end of the enclosed area, 

 ' one of which was opened some years ago, and a brass celt and some 

 fragments of an unbaked urn were found in it.' 1 



The extreme length of the enclosure from north to south is 1,125 

 feet ; and the greatest width 700 feet. The southern end yields a 

 measurement of a little under 600 feet, but it must have been fully 

 1,000 feet wide before the process of disintegration of the flaky shale set in.* 



1 Bateman's FeUtgei of the Antlq. of Derb. (1848), 124. 



* The best account of Mam Tor is that given by Mr. I. Chalkley Gould, Jour*, of Derb. Arch. 

 Sue. ixiv. 27-31. This fort is also described in Mr. J. D. Sainter's Ramblei round Macclesfield, where a 

 ground plan is given opposite p. 12. 



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