This site is the remains of a circular chambered cairn that originally had two back to back opposing limestone chambers facing east and west and each probably entered by a passage through a now vanished mound. The eastern chamber is well preserved and consists of a pair of upright portal stones about 1.5 metres tall behind which are a pair of large slabs about 2 metres in length and a smaller backstone – the covering slab capstone from the top of the chamber is now gone. Inside, the chamber is about 1 metre wide… read more: Five Wells Chambered Cairn – West of Taddington, Derbyshire.

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