A rare square-shaped Bronze Age barrow on Beeley Moor, named after a hobgoblin of Peak District folklore
Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls
Most Bronze Age burial mounds are round; this one, on Beeley Moor above Chatsworth, is square, ringed by a ditch and a low outer bank that still show clearly against the heather. At the centre, a cluster of stones may once have formed a burial chamber, or perhaps stood as an open setting instead. When the antiquarian Thomas Bateman dug into the mound in 1853, he found a cremation burial along with two pieces of galena, a type of lead ore. The barrow takes its name from Hob o’ th’ Hurst, a local hobgoblin, and is free to visit any time, out on exposed moorland with nowhere to shelter if the weather turns.
